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Women Leaders Needed in the WTO
- Analysis
- June 14, 2018
The Declaration on Trade and Women’s Economic Empowerment is a stepping stone on the road to advancing gender equality and the economic empowerment of women in the World Trade Organization (WTO). The best way to achieve gender equality in an …
READ MOREThe G20 at Five: More Technocratic and Less Visionary
- Analysis
- September 10, 2013
While media attention was focussed on Syria, the G20 issued its most detailed communiqué in its five-year history. It includes commitments to work together on a wide range of issues: strong and sustainable economic growth, unemployment and underemployment (particularly among …
READ MOREPrescription for Azevedo and an Ailing WTO
- Analysis
- May 23, 2013
Published in the Ottawa Citizen’s “Aid and Development” blog, May 23, 2013
The selection of Roberto Azevedo, Brazil’s Ambassador to the WTO and chief negotiator in the Doha Round, as the new WTO director-general is being hailed …
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Educational Exchanges and the Promotion of Human Rights
- Analysis
- March 9, 2012
On Monday of this week, in a small graduate seminar at American University Washington College of Law (in Washington, DC), a beautiful, humble, passionate heroine explained the history of the fight for women’s rights in her country, Yemen, and shared …
READ MOREWTO Resilient but Changed after Ministerial
- Analysis
- February 8, 2012
This essay is excerpted from a Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) Commentary, published online February 7, 2012.
The recent ministerial meeting, held in Geneva in December, demonstrated that the World Trade Organization (WTO) is resilient but changed as …
READ MOREHarper and Obama at APEC: A New Focus on Asia or a Closer Canada-U.S. Relationship?
- Analysis
- November 17, 2011
Was the Prime Minister’s statement at the APEC Summit of Canada’s interest in joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations a sign of a new export strategy focused on Asia or a move away from our close trading relationship with the …
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First CETA, then India and China: Whither the WTO?
- Analysis
- October 25, 2011
As Canada and the European Union held the ninth round of negotiations on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) in Ottawa last week, and moved closer to a conclusion in 2012, what will be the impact on the World …
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