Key Issues for Reforming the World Trade Organization
This monograph—authored by a subset of GTIPA members—explores the leading challenges facing the WTO and offers a number of policy recommendations for how to address them.
Mon, 09/27/2021
Our studies, projects and policy recommendations identify the risks and opportunities for our economy and our society. Here you'll find an overview of our reports. Download the About GTIPA brochure.
GTIPA members have issued numerous reports and articles to help policymakers address the coronavirus update. View list.
Principles and a Framework of Antitrust for Global Innovation
GTIPA members propose a framework and principles to guide antitrust policy to foster greater levels of global innovation.
Thu, 06/17/2021
A Joint Declaration on the Importance of IPRs to Covid Vaccine Manufacturing Scale-up and Future Pandemic Preparedness
The following declaration sets out why we believe that divisive proposals before the World Trade Organization to override intellectual property rights to promote local vaccine production would do more harm than good. There are better ways to accelerate vaccine manufacturing based on trust and collaboration.
Mon, 05/24/2021
GTIPA Perspectives: The Importance of E-commerce, Digital Trade, and Maintaining the WTO E-commerce Customs Duty Moratorium
This report shows GTIPA members’ perspectives on e-commerce and digital trade in light of negotiations on new rules World Trade Organization (WTO) member nations are deliberating regarding the moratorium on cross-border electronic transmissions customs duties (i.e., duties on digital products).
Mon, 10/26/2020
GTIPA Perspectives: Nations' Trade Policy Priorities for the Year Ahead
This report provides GTIPA members’ perspectives on their nations’ three most-significant trade priorities for the year ahead. This document aims to deliver a succinct snapshot of what to expect in the coming year regarding trade policy priorities for these countries.
Mon, 10/26/2020
GTIPA Perspectives: COVID-19 Impacts on Public Health and the Economy of GTIPA Member Nations
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic that emerged at the start of 2020 has impacted the global economy and public health to an unprecedented extent. This anthology analyzes the economic and public health impact and policy responses of 20 nations and regions.
Mon, 10/26/2020
Global Value Chains After the COVID-19 Crisis
GTIPA members explore how global value chains have played an important role in overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic and helping sustain global economic growth through the crisis.
Thu, 02/25/2021
A Declaration of Mutual Interest in Trade and Globalization for the Benefit of All Peoples and Nations
A Declaration of Mutual Interest in Trade and Globalization for the Benefit of All Peoples and Nations
Thu, 04/13/2017
Innovative Europe: The Way Forward. Taking Stock and Thinking Ahead.
This blueprint aims to inform European institutions on the state of innovation in three sectors (Digital, Healthcare, and Energy & Mobility).
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Recent Reports
Digital has a huge role to play in reaching a net-zero world. Alongside advancements in tech, we need bold, radical policy action to close the global digital divide.
China’s institutionalized trade circumvention apparatus presents an enormous challenge for modern trade policy and existing remedies are ill-equipped to address the problem. The global trade system needs a new and updated set of tools, which start from and require the US to coordinate with its allies and partners.
The debates surrounding the New Economic Policy tend to be polarising and often reach a stalemate; however, a more constructive engagement is possible through re-appreciating the NEP’s strengths and examining its weaknesses/omissions, grappling with its policy discourses as well as with its popular but misguided perspectives. This paper suggests that by doing all these, we can ultimately recraft the NEP to forge a cohesive and inclusive Malaysian society.
It would therefore seem that the 2020 recession is fully in the rearview mirror and the recovery well on track. But the numbers should be taken with a grain of salt.
The Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) embarked on a research and advocacy project on Malaysia’s New Economic Policy (NEP), with the aim to revisit and reexamine the successes and shortcomings of the policy, as well as its implementation in subsequent development plans. Launched in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the NEP this year, IDEAS hopes the project will facilitate discussions to assess the policy’s relevance to Malaysia’s current development needs 50 years on, as well as delve into the difficult questions of Bumiputera identity and social cohesion.
China’s institutionalized trade circumvention apparatus presents an enormous challenge for modern trade policy and existing remedies are ill-equipped to address the problem. The global trade system needs a new and updated set of tools, which start from and require the US to coordinate with its allies and partners.
The debates surrounding the New Economic Policy tend to be polarising and often reach a stalemate; however, a more constructive engagement is possible through re-appreciating the NEP’s strengths and examining its weaknesses/omissions, grappling with its policy discourses as well as with its popular but misguided perspectives. This paper suggests that by doing all these, we can ultimately recraft the NEP to forge a cohesive and inclusive Malaysian society.
Geopolitical undercurrents are causing upstream supply chains in the EV sector to fragment into localized ecosystems in China, Europe, and North America. The growing nexus between semiconductors and EVs will follow a similar pattern. Techno-nationalism will increase the likelihood of more restrictions on dual-use technologies, presenting complex challenges to global trade.
Indonesia responded to its placement on the 2021 Priority Watch List (PWL) from the United States Trade Representative’s Office (USTR) by announcing its commitment to prevent and tackle widespread piracy and counterfeit.