Contribution to the 9th Anniversary Edition of the CTIL Magazine, published by the Centre for Trade and Investment Law with the support of India’s Department of Commerce and the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, under the editorship of Prof. James…
Article accepted for publication, analysing whether gender provisions in trade agreements are copied from existing templates and what this imitation Document:https://academic.oup.com/jiel/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jiel…
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…
Chapter (pp. 471–494; with Nadia Hasham, Chin Lim and Joel Trachtman) offering a practice-based look at the focus areas for integrating gender considerations in trade agreements.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/404413470_Integrating_Gender…
Paper identifying the barriers persons with disabilities face in trade and the disconnect between those barriers and the policy solutions currently found in trade agreements.
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…
This study explores the impact of trade policies on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Windhoek, Namibia. Despite SMEs’ critical role in Namibia's economy, contributing significantly to employment and GDP, their high failure rates remain…
We use unique enterprise survey data to explore the export behavior of firms in Tunisia, a small, trade-dependent country with a complex policy environment regarding exporting. Firms may export directly or indirectly through intermediaries, and can…
Advances in information and communication technology (ICT) have reduced trade costs providing enterprises greater opportunity to access international markets. Using the World Bank's enterprise survey data covering more than 180 000 enterprises from…
This chapter provides an overview of the growing influence of both labour standards and gender equality concerns in contemporary trade debates, and in particular how existing FTAs have increasingly accommodated both types of issues. In the following…