Africa
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The New “Pact for the Mediterranean” – Prioritising Areas of High Potential and Urgent Need
Research Areas: Africa EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Jan A. MicallefOver the years numerous ambitious initiatives sought to strengthen ties in the Mediterranean region. These range from the Barcelona Process to the...
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Adapting Under Pressure: The Global South’s Quantum Journey
Research Areas: Africa Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Latin America South Asia and OceaniaBy: Guest AuthorBy Francisco Jure, Research Assistant, ECIPE. I have had an Argentine submarine livestream running in the background for days. Thousands of people...
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Trade in the Great Sea: Revisiting EU-Southern Mediterranean Trade Relations
Research Areas: Africa EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Russia and Eurasia Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Jan A. MicallefImage: Romeyn de Hooghe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The Mediterranean region may currently not be a central geography for EU trade...
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Digital Globalisation, Digital Trade Policy, and the Role of Developing Countries
Research Areas: Africa Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies Far East Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Latin America Russia and Eurasia South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityDigital trade has grown very fast in recent years, not least because of Covid-19 and its push to do online business. The pandemic, according to one...
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The Role of Intellectual Property in Achieving the Health Sustainable Development Goal
Research Areas: Africa Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Latin America South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: intellectual propertyBy: Guest AuthorBy Prof. Dr. David Taylor, University College London Introduction In the absence of a vaccine much of the positive progress on combating HIV/AIDS...
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Of Debt and Disease.
Research Areas: Africa EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Latin America South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityA street pharmacy in Tanzania (from author’s own archives) Debt relief is not a panacea to tackle the pandemic in the developing countries In midst...
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Old Problems in the New World: Banking and Payments Make Global E-commerce Surprisingly Local
Tags: e-commerceBy: Guest AuthorBy Sara Holmberg, Research Assistant at ECIPE Imagine a small village in rural Kenya. Imagine 20 women who make traditional jewellery. Now,...
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East African Community and the EU’s Economic Partnership Agreement: Do African Countries Suffer from the Victim Complex?
Research Areas: Africa EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy Maria Salfi (Intern at ECIPE) A week has passed and the deadline to ratify the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) missed. African countries are...
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Unwelcome Benefits of the WTO Bali Deal?
Research Areas: Africa Industrial and Competitiveness Policy South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: agriculture foreign direct investment India Least Developed Countries multilateralism trade facilitation WTO WTO Ministerial ConferenceAfter twelve years of tedious negotiations, only a fraction of the original Doha mandate remains. One is filled with certain surprise and relief,...
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Does the European Development Agenda Help to Increase Trade with Developing Countries?
Research Areas: Africa EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Natalia MacyraThe new Communication from the European Commission and the ongoing reform of the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) have revived the debate...
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The New EU Strategy for Trade and Development
Research Areas: Africa EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Latin America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonThere are some interesting ideas and proposals in the European Commission’s new Communication on trade and development. After a decade as...
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It is not all About Russia in WTO
By: Natalia MacyraWhile Europe’s attention is focused on EU leaders fighting the Eurozone crisis and intriguing future Russia World Trade Organization accession,...