Expert comment (with Prachi Agarwal, ODI Global) on the EU-India Free Trade Agreement signed in January 2026. It finds that the agreement’s trade and gender provision consists mostly of non-binding commitments that sit under each party’s right to…
In recent years, trade agreements between states have evolved, expanding the topics addressed, including, in some cases, chapters on gender. The general objective of this study is to determine whether the Gender Chapter of the Interim Trade…
The South African exchange rate has been volatile in recent years affecting the competitiveness of commodities in the market. Consequently, South African agricultural exporters have faced lower profitability or entire losses. More South Africa is…
Background: Enhancing South Africa-Southern African Development Community (SADC) intra-regional trade can strengthen economic connections, foster shared growth, and lessen reliance on external market shocks.Aim: The study aimed to determine the…
Mit der Einfuhrung des Datengesetzes und des Daten-Governance-Gesetzes(DGA) und der schrittweisen Verbesserung des ,digitalen öffentlichen Raums der EU“nimmt das EU-Governance-Modell der Datennutzung allmahlich klare Konturen an. Die EU hat sich für…
E-government has taken a prominent place in the political and economic debate. Despite the vast nonconsensual literature, on the effects of natural resources, very little is known about the effects of these resources on the development of e…
Authors: Zhou N., Nan Kong., Bingjie Wang., Zhang Y Based on the comprehensive measures of digital technology and cross-country services trade database, our study empirically examines the impacts of digital technology on export in services. We find…
This paper explores the impact of trade openness and exchange rate volatility on South Africa’s industrial growth from 1980 to 2024 through a hybrid econometric framework combining Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) and Structural Vector…
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of real exchange rate (RER) changes on the growth rate of the agriculture, industrial, services, and extractive sectors. To this end, a panel autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model, for 19…
This study attempts to assess the reaction of sectorial employment shares to real exchange rate (RER) changes in 19 emerging economies over the period 1992–2020. To this end, a panel autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model was used. First, our…