International Trade
Blog Post
Next, an international tax war?
A second major front is about to open in the global economic conflict the Trump Administration is provoking, this time regarding taxation.
Blog Post
Might there be a method to the Trump trade policy madness?
A charitable interpretation of the Administration's shocking trade announcements has been making the rounds speculating that they are mere tactics in a larger strategy of global macroeconomic rebalancing and international trade and monetary system reform.
Blog Post
Trump’s Meat Ax Trade Initiative Addresses a Serious Issue but . . .
Taken at face value, the announced approach is unconstitutional and administratively unworkable --- in addition to running the risk of huge collateral damage at home and abroad. Congress needs to be brought into the equation for both procedural and substantive reasons.
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Human-Centred International Economic Policy: Institutionalizing Inclusion, Sustainability and Resilience in International Economic Governance and Cooperation (Chapter 6)
Palgrave Macmillan, Intl Labour Organization (ILO)
This book chapter presents a Bretton-Woods-like set of deep reforms of the international economic architecture, adapting the IMF, multilateral development banks, and WTO and other trade-related institutions to the challenges of the 21st century based on a post-neoliberal "Roosevelt Consensus" model of growth and development.
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Digital Economic Agreement and Digital Partnerships: Modular Paths to International Cooperation
Panel discussion moderated by Prof. William Drake of Columbia University Institute for Tele-Information, from Japan.
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Can Governments Agree on Global Data Flows? Here Are Six Recommendations
World Economic Forum (WEF)
Under Japan’s G20 presidency in 2019, world leaders welcomed the Osaka Track – a call for closer international cooperation on cross-border data flows and emerging technologies that rely upon them.
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Give Climate and Trade Negotiators a New Joint Mission: Low-Carbon Trade Agreements
VoxEU
Article in leading European economic research outlet proposing a new type of plurilateral trade agreement or green trade alliance among a core group of major economies interested in aligning relevant enabling economic policies and standards for the purpose of accelerating adoption of low-carbon products and services across the world economy.
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The Paris Accord Won’t Stop Global Warming on its Own
Foreign Policy
This magazine piece proposes a new type of plurilateral trade agreement, foreshadowing but going well beyond the 'Climate Club' initiative of Germany's 2019 G7 presidency, to coordinate multiple economic policies and standards of major economies in order to scale the penetration of low-carbon products and services in the world economy and avert a trade war over disparate carbon border adjustment schemes.
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Interview on international trade
Explanation of multistakeholder approach to addressing international trade and investment challenges.
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Launch of comprehensive set of proposals for reform of the international trade and investment system — E15 Initiative
Peterson Institute for International Economics event launching and discussing the recommendations of a global process of 18 multistakeholder working groups involving over 300 experts.