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| Global Trade Alert launches a worldwide instrument to monitor and analyze protectionism |
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The Centre for Economic Policy Research, in cooperation with GMF, launched the Global Trade Alert (GTA) (Download Video) project in London on June 8th, 2009. In addition to providing information on state measures in real time on its easy-to-use www.globaltradealert.org), GTA will allow policymakers, government officials, exporters, the media, and analysts to search the posted government measures by implementing country, trading partners harmed, and sector. In this regard, Global Trade Alert will complement and go beyond the WTO and World Bank's monitoring initiatives by identifying those trading partners likely to be harmed by state measures.
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| Transatlantic Trade and Investment Report Launch in Brussels - Narrowing the Atlantic: The Way Forward for EU-U.S. Trade and Investment |
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On June 9, the German Marshall Fund (GMF) along with the Centre for European Reform (CER) co-hosted an event in Brussels to launch a new report authored by Philip Whyte of CER.
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| GMF Senior Transatlantic Fellow Jim Kunder responds to Senator Kerry’s speech on “Diplomacy and Development in the 21st Century" |
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On May 21, GMF Fellow Jim Kunder served as a respondent to U.S. Senator John Kerry's speech on “Diplomacy and Development in the 21st Century.” In the speech Senator Kerry made a strong endorsement for reinvigorating U.S. diplomatic and development tools. As a respondent in the panel that followed, Mr. Kunder offered some perspectives on the challenges involved in creating what he called a "powerful development model."
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| Former USAID Official James Kunder joins GMF as a Senior Resident Fellow |
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GMF announces today that James Kunder has joined GMF as a Senior Resident Fellow. The former Acting Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Devleopment (USAID), Kunder will advise GMF on the modernization of foreign assistance and the nexus between security and development as part of its Economic Policy Program.
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| Transatlantic Taskforce releases report on development |
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The Transatlantic Taskforce on Development, a group comprising 24 North American and European leaders in development, urges renewed leadership and partnerships in global development to political leaders on both sides of the Atlantic, and gives specific recommendations in its report
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| GMF Joint Blog Discusses WTO and Doha In-Depth |
 The German Marshall Fund of the United States and the International Food & Agriculture Trade Policy Council (IPC) have combined efforts for a joint blogging initiative. This blog collaboration aims to provide insight on concluding the Doha Round and pursuing trade liberalization in the future. Check the GMF blog for future in-depth updates.
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Virtue from Necessity: Why the EU and U.S. should strengthen regulatory cooperation
Richard Salt
Regulation, of products, services and markets, rarely sets pulses racing – and when it does, it tends to be for the wrong reasons. Yet cross-border differences in the way markets are regulated represent a growing challenge for the global economy, and demand greater cooperation from the world’s economic powers. Nowhere is this demand for engagement greater than in the transatlantic economic relationship. |
The Hit Parade: The Concentration of Tariff Water in Manufactured Products and the Risks to Global Trade
Groupe d’Economie Mondiale at Sciences Po
In a GMF-supported paper, the authors cite that several decades of negotiations and unilateral trade reforms have led to large reductions in applied tariffs on industrial goods. During the same period, rounds of negotiations under GATT and at the WTO have induced their members to make commitments in the form of bound tariff rates. As a result, today many applied tariffs are much lower than the bound rates—a difference that is referred to as tariff water, or sometimes also binding overhang. |
What the economic crisis means for the EU's eastern policy
Tomas Valasek,
Center for European Reform
In a GMF-supported policy brief for the Center for European Reform, Tomas Valasek warns that protectionist pressures in Western and Eastern Europe are frustrating plans for deeper economic integration and easier travel. Valasek argues that the EU governments should persevere with the eastern partnership, and suggests ways for the EU to protect the initiative from the effects of the economic crisis. |
Fixing the Global Economy: Why a Better Future Requires International Cooperation
Richard Salt
GMF Policy Brief
Amid talk of a new “Bretton Woods,” leaders of advanced and emerging economies met for the first time in November 2008 to discuss the global financial crisis. The crisis has clearly demonstrated the potential weaknesses of the existing financial and regulatory architecture. Capital crosses borders instantaneously and virtually seamlessly, but it is national bodies that are tasked with ensuring the financial system’s stability. International cooperation is required. |
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