Analysis
Did the WTO Restrain Protectionism During The Recent Systemic Crisis?
9 Dec 2011
Did the WTO Restrain Protectionism During The Recent Systemic Crisis…Trade Tensions Mount: The 10th GTA Report
21 Nov 2011
The 10th GTA report documents several factors that together imply that the protectionist threat to the world trading system is probably as significant as it was in the first half of 2009, when such concerns were last at their peak.…
Resolve Falters As Global Prospects Worsen: The 9th GTA Report
20 Jul 2011
Despite the public commitments made at the Seoul G20 summit, this year protectionism has slipped off the work programme of G20 nations. The latest evidence published in the 9th GTA Report shows that government resolve against protectionism has weakened at the very time when global economic prospects have dimmed. The global trading system is not out of the protectionist woods.…
Tensions Contained... For Now: The 8th GTA Report
8 Nov 2010
Although the dispute over China's exchange rate regime intensified in the run up to the Seoul G20 Summit, pressures for across-the-board protectionist measures have been contained, for now. The latest data on protectionism, summarised in this Report, show that the countries with large current account surpluses have not been targeted unduly in recent months.…
Managed Exports and the Recovery of World Trade: The 7th GTA Report
16 Sep 2010
The seventh GTA report reveals that trading powers have been using enhanced incentives to promote national exports.…
Unequal Compliance: The 6th GTA report
23 Jun 2010
The latest GTA report presents a comprehensive global overview of protectionist trends since the last G-20 summit in September 2009.…
Africa Resists the Protectionist Temptation. The 5th GTA Report
27 May 2010
With the return to economic growth of many industrialised economies in either late 2009 or the first half of 2010, combined with sustained expansions in the emerging market economies, came the hope that protectionist pressures would ease in the world economy through 2010.…
Will Stabilisation Limit Protectionism? The 4th GTA Report
15 Feb 2010
After the tumult of the first half of 2009 many economies stabilised and some even began to recover in the last quarter of 2009. Using information compiled through to late January 2010, this the fourth report of the Global Trade Alert examines whether macroeconomic stabilisation has altered governments resort to protectionism.…
The Unrelenting Pressure of Protectionism: The 3rd GTA Report
7 Dec 2009
At a time when more commentators are becoming cautiously optimistic about the prospects for 2010, this Report from Global Trade Alert presents the latest data on the protectionist dynamics at work since the first G20 crisis-related Summit in November 2008 and highlights the many anti-trade measures that are in the pipeline. …
CIGI Special G20 Report: Flashpoints for the Pittsburgh Summit
Andrew F. Cooper
27 Oct 2009
CIGI Special G20 Report: Flashpoints for the Pittsburgh Summit is a compendium of brief policy papers by respected academics and practitioners who have studied the G20.…
