Financial services (de-)regulation in trade agreements Part 1: GATS 1994 First services trade agreement Four modes of services trade Most important: mode 3, investment Market access and national treatment commitments via bottom-up approach Commitments can not be changed without...
Various stakeholders in Ghana have raised concerns with the quality of the processes, the content and the speed of negotiations of proposed Africa’s Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and agreed on a seven-member Ad hoc Committee, to contribute to...
African Countries Split on Special and Different Treatment within the CFTA Discussions There is a sharp split along the lines of least developed countries on one hand, and non-least developed African countries on the other, on the level of...
Videos of CFTA Interviews 12th-14th June 2018
UNCTAD has been engulfed in a crisis that seems to question the very essence of ‘multilateralism ‘ in the global trade architecture, writes * Kanga Raja Acrisis in “multilateralism for trade” has been unfolding in the two years since...