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…
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.
Globalization has brought with it a number of challenges to the flow of capital between countries. Among them is the need to evaluate and monitor foreign investments, both to attract resources and to ensure the security of strategic sectors. This…
My talk today begins with a brief overview of President Trump’s tariff policies, followed by examining various aspects and implications his tariff-linked investment approach. We will look together at what developments we may anticipate in the near…
This article examines the relationship between transparency and legitimacy in investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) jurisprudence, particularly in the context of Third-Party Funding (TPF). The initial section of the paper scrutinizes transparency…
The objective of this paper is to analyse the socioeconomic implications of Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) which comes in the form of enhanced infrastructure development, loans and foreign direct investment. This has led to China becoming…
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…
Executive Summary Mauritius had its first three COVID-19 cases on 18 March 2020 and the island was under "sanitary" lockdown for two weeks. From 24 to 31 March, the country went under complete lockdown with only essential services being…