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Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry in collaboration with Centre for Trade and Investment Law (CTIL), Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi organised a Chintan Shivir on Free Trade Agreement Strategy and SOP for Trade Negotiations from 16 to 17 May 2024 at Neemrana, Rajasthan. The Two-Day Chintan Shivir facilitated discussions on…

Led by Commerce Secretary, Sunil Barthwal, the Chintan Shivir aimed to formulate a strategic roadmap for India's FTA negotiations while fostering discussions on SOPs, capacity building, and contemporary trade issues.

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If the war in Gaza continues for a second month the poverty rate in the State of Palestine will soar by 34 percent, thrusting nearly half a million additional people into poverty, as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) plummets by 8.4 percent—a loss of US$1.7 billion—according to initial estimates by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA).

Professor Hervey Gibson, who teaches economics at Glasgow Caledonian University, was one of two peer reviewers for the SPICe paper published last…

Yaounde, May 24, 2023, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Subregional Office for Central Africa (SRO-CA) will participate in the 26th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis (GTAP) and International Input-Output Association (IIOA) Conference, both in June 2023, presenting findings on Industrialization and Economic Diversification with a focus on keys

The implementation of trade facilitation measures under African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) as well as reductions in intra- AfCFTA tariffs and non-tariff barriers (NTBs) in goods and services can boost Ghana’s real income by 5.7 per cent, relative to baseline. By the year 2035, about four per cent, representing…

The carbon emission trading scheme (ETS) is an essential policy tool for accomplishing Chinese carbon targets. Based on the Chinese provincial panel data from 2003 to 2019, an empirical study is conducted to measure the effects of carbon emission reduction and spatial spillover effect by adopting the difference-in-differences (DID) model and spatial difference-in-differences (SDID) model. The research findings show that: (1) The ETS effectively reduced the total carbon emissions as well as emiss...

The socioeconomic impact assessment of COVID-19 on the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Format EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has not only created an unprecedented health crisis but triggered serious economic downturns globally. The Philippines has not been spared and the effects are felt in all its regions, including the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). BARMM is still a region in transition towards establishing a fully autonomous po...

Breakingviews 6 Min Read LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - At budget time, finance ministers sometimes cite the words of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV’s finance minister, that “the art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible quantity of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing”. In truth, fiscal policymakers nowadays tend to see taxation as a science rather than an art. People walk over Waterloo Bridge, amidst the coronavirus disease ...