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A new WTO trade deal is expected to provide up to $1 trillion in economic gains by eliminating bureaucracy. But that’s not its most important benefit.
The largest economy on the planet is quickly moving to a protectionist stance in its international trade.
Jokowi’s visit was a good deal shorter than the one planned for last year. But it did highlight several important issues in the bilateral relationship.
Can Canada manage to keep up trade while also meeting US expectations for a safe border?
Trade under Trump will mean more bilateral agreements, hard bargaining and ultimatums, a sharp departure from Obama’s multilateral, win-win approach.
Trump’s ‘America first’ rhetoric implies that the internationalism and ‘enlightened self-interest’ that built the postwar order was a big mistake. The evidence and basic economics disagree.
Much of the debate around trade deals misses some of the fundamentals of what they actually are and involve.
The agreement could be as good as dead, if, instead of pushing ahead without the US, its members decide to explore bilateral trade agreements with the country.
Trump formally pulled out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and signaled his intention to begin renegotiating NAFTA. Here’s some context.
Far from ‘making America great again’, Donald Trump’s sloganeering will deepen mistrust of US motives and irreparably damage any prospect of co-existence, let alone a more co-operative world order.
Xi Jinping is the first Chinese leader to attend the World Economic Forum and used his speech to denounce protectionism. But China’s trade liberalisation has stalled recently.
The PM is overestimating Brexit Britain’s place in the world as she boldly strides out of the single market.
We could be witnessing the beginning of globalisation going in reverse.
As Europe discusses the reasons behind and reaction to the Brexit thunderclap, some in the UK are already seeing business opportunities – through the free ports, a notion abandoned by the EU.
The gains reported in 2016 went hand in hand with overall growth in Africa over the last two decades.
The main arguments in favor of the TPP were economic. But there’s another reason the Trump administration should rethink its promise to nix it: Its demise will weaken US national security.
Financial crises and soaring inequality fueled the populist backlashes that threaten neoliberalism’s core principles of free markets and free people. The world needs a new narrative to counteract it.
Globalization in its present form has generated economic inequalities, political uncertainties and cultural anxiety. Is there a way to move forward that benefits more people?
China’s goods are everywhere, thanks to the gains China has made from trade and foreign investment. Now that China wants to return the favor, the US may risk losing out if it chooses to turn inward.
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Merced
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School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Industry Professor and Chief Economist, University of Technology Sydney
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Director and Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute (UTS:ACRI), University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer of international trade law, Monash Business School, Monash University
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Distinguished Professor, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, & Head, Department of Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Professor, and Executive Director: Institute for International Trade, and Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Trade and Environment, Adelaide University
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Research Director, The University of Western Australia
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Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Regents Professor of Law and Communication and Director of the Center for Law and Intellectual Property, Texas A&M University
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Lecturer in History, University of Exeter
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Trade, Adelaide University
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Professor of Practice, NYU Shanghai and Fundação Dom Cabral, NYU Shanghai