The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has been implementing a work programme supporting small-scale traders, through the COMESA Simplified Trade Regime (STR) and COMESA Trade Information Desks (TIDs) at key border crossings in…
The purpose of multilateral disciplines on subsidies is to avoid trade distortions, in order to
increase production efficiencies through competition. However, this objective may be defeated due
to defects in the structure of the WTO Agreement on…
In two early WTO cases, the Appellate Body found a failure to engage in negotiations to be arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination under the GATT Article XX chapeau. Subsequent jurisprudence has not applied a negotiation requirement. Instead, it…
This article analyzes how treaty structure affects regulatory autonomy by shifting the point in a treaty in which tribunals address public interest regulation. The article also analyzes how trade and investment treaties use a variety of structures…
World Trade Organisation Dispute Settlement Understanding (WTO DSU) is a two-tier mechanism. The first tier is international adjudication and the second tier is domestic handling of trade disputes. Both tiers are interdependent and interconnected. A…
World Trade Organisation Dispute Settlement Understanding (WTO DSU) is a two-tier mechanism. The first tier is international adjudication and the second tier is domestic handling of trade disputes. Both tiers are interdependent and interconnected. A…
To provide a snapshot of 2016 international economic law activity in Latin America, we
selected the top ten countries in this field. The criteria used for this selection were size of
the economy (GDP), merchandise trade volume,…
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The study uses country level panel data covering the period 2000 to 2014 to investigate the impact of remittances on the GDP per capita in 19 member countries of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern African (COMESA) region. The one-step…
This study uses country level panel data to investigate the impact of short term foreign capital flows on the Gross Domestic Product per Capita in 19 member countries of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) over the 2000-2014…