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Blog Post
October 27, 2014
Implementation of a global deal to promote trade through increased regulatory transparency and reform of customs procedures is stalled. The deadlock began in July, when India blocked formal adoption of the Trade Facilitation Agreement, which WTO members had agreed to in Bali at the end of ...
Blog Post
September 23, 2014
With the threat of antimicrobial resistance on the rise, we are heartened by President Barack Obama’s recent executive order that outlines a national strategy to combat drug resistance, including creation of an inter-agency task force to implement and monitor the plan. The ...
Blog Post
August 04, 2014
The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) needs to be reauthorized next year and discussions about how to improve it are picking up steam. There is a lot that is unknown—when it will be renewed, for how long, and whether the renewal will be as “seamless” as everyone says they w...
CGD in the News
August 02, 2014
The WTO will not come crashing down tomorrow, says Kimberly Elliott, a trade analyst at the Center for Global Development think-tank in Washington.
But its future looks bleak if the Doha negotiations go back into the coma that has been their dominant state in recent years.
While many celebrate the...
CGD in the News
July 31, 2014
“I don’t know how many jobs [the WTO deal is] going to create, and I think the numbers are exaggerated. But I think that it’s critical that this agreement happens so that we have this system of international rules under the WTO,” says Kimberly Elliott, a senior fellow with th...
CGD NOTES
July 24, 2014
If the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is to remain as a key part of US development policy in Africa, it needs to embrace the sector on which so many of the poor in Africa depend. According to World Bank data, more than 60 percent of Africans live in rural areas, and they are more likely t...
CGD in the News
July 15, 2014
Numbers like these are unlikely to tilt Iran policy said Kimberly Elliott, a trade policy expert at the Center for Global Development. Ms. Elliott conducted a similar study on the costs of sanctions in the 1990s that had little effect on policy, she said. Ms. Elliott says because the costs of ...