Catégorie Trade

Trade, WTO reform and globalisation

In his first visit to CEIBS Shanghai Campus since joining the school as a Distinguished Professor, former Director-General of the WTO Pascal Lamy shared his views on the US-China trade dispute, calls for reforming the WTO, as well as the roles China & Europe will play in globalisation.

Watch the Paris Peace Forum seminar addressing issues of international trade disruptions : « Trading trade off – the Spillover risk »

« En Afrique, les investisseurs exigent une rentabilité plus élevée qu’ailleurs »

Pascal Lamy, spokesperson for the Mo Ibrahim Foundation commented the Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG). The Foundation published its yearly bulletin which presents data collected on African governance. « Le principal enseignement, c’est qu’en règle générale, l’amélioration de la gouvernance se poursuit lentement. » Read the article here : https://bit.ly/2EbqBXt

Pascal Lamy; Chair of the Paris Peace Forum Steering Committee thinks Polylateral Governance is the way forward

We have a growing global governance deficit. On the one side exists rising global challenges (such as climate change or cybersecurity), on the other remains decreasing international cooperation and threats to multilateralism. Not that global governance should be thought of as a global version of local governance. It is inevitably much more difficult than local […]

Pascal Lamy at the 12th World Trade Promotion Organizations Conference in Paris

Pascal Lamy intervened at the 12th World Trade Promotion Organizations Conference on « Trade and Investment Ecosystems: Delivering for Growth » with a focus on how an ecosystem approach could add value for small businesses and the implications this approach would have for the future direction of TIPOs. https://bit.ly/Tb6s8H

A rules based, open, globalisation is still worth fighting for

« At a time when globalisation is under attack, Pascal Lamy exposes why Peter Sutherland was, and still is, right in promoting a rules based open international system. »