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What does gender mean at the WTO, and who benefits?

By Silke Trommer and Erin Hannah Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Growth and Inclusion Posted: October 10, 2017

Following the World Trade Organisation’s recent Public Forum, Dr Erin Hannah and Dr Silke Trommer reflect on the new focus on gender in global trade and the challenges of addressing it. Inserting meaningful gender sensitivity into the business of the WTO will require a massive paradigm shift and change in thinking The appointment of a […]

International trade in post-Brexit Britain

By David Collins Filed Under: All posts, Brexit Posted: August 31, 2017

Our blog ‘Brexit, Regulation and Society’ blog series, in conjunction with ManReg, continues with City, University of London’s Professor David Collins. Here, Professor Collins reflects on Britain’s existing Bilateral Investment Treaties, and their role as a potential basis for our post-Brexit trading future. Bilateral Investment Treaties were created to protect investors overseas and the UK […]

Post-Brexit Trade Policy: Negotiating Country-by-Country Deals and its Discontents

By Silke Trommer Filed Under: All posts, Brexit, British Politics Posted: March 2, 2017

As Britain prepares to exit the European Union and as news outlets, think tanks and policy experts try to work out the Government’s strategy and priorities for their exiting agreement and plans post-Brexit, trade policy continues to be a key theme. With the new US administration making clear their country-by-country approach to trade deals, Dr […]

ARM Holdings takeover deal: are we selling the crown jewels?

By Steve Furber Filed Under: All posts, Brexit, Science and Engineering Posted: August 3, 2016

ARM Holdings, one of the UK’s biggest technology companies, has been taken over by a Japanese company for £24bn. The country’s new Prime Minister is citing it as a success of Brexit – but Steve Furber says it’s on a par with selling the crown jewels. Was it a coincidence that, during the week that […]

Why Brexit is a bad idea if you want to avoid the effects of TTIP

By Gabriel Siles-Brügge Filed Under: All posts, Brexit Posted: March 11, 2016

While prominent left-wing critics of the EU argue that Britain can avoid the worst excesses of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership by leaving the EU, Dr Gabriel Siles-Brügge argues that a Brexit may actually be counterproductive. Stiglitz and the left ‘Brexiters’ ‘I think that the strictures imposed by TTIP [the Transatlantic Trade and Investment […]

Nigeria’s Elections – 2015

By Bala Yusuf Yunusa Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted: February 4, 2015

With Nigeria due to go to the polls later this month Bala Yusuf Yunusa, of the Brooks World Poverty Institute at The University of Manchester, explores the impact the result may have on Nigeria’s international relations and particularly relations with the UK. Trade between the two nations is worth £8b a year. Bala has previously […]

What does gender mean at the WTO, and who benefits?

International trade in post-Brexit Britain

Post-Brexit Trade Policy: Negotiating Country-by-Country Deals and its Discontents

ARM Holdings takeover deal: are we selling the crown jewels?

Why Brexit is a bad idea if you want to avoid the effects of TTIP

Nigeria’s Elections – 2015

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