"Illicit financial flows (IFFs) associated with commodity trade erode the tax base of resource-rich developing countries. Efforts to curb IFFs and reform taxation stumble over enhanced North-South tensions but remain crucial to helping poorer countries mobilise domestic resources for...

Intro -- Agriculture, Price Stabilisation and Trade Rules: A Principled Approach -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Editor Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Scoping the Research -- 1.2 Agricultural Price Stabilisation: Why...

Introduction -- Setting the stage: key concepts and issues -- A historical review of multilaterally agreed criteria for action on commodity prices (1947-1989) -- From market intervention to free trade and back to managed trade (1989-2011) -- Beyond the impasse : towards a new normative approach...

The paper examines current sustainability impact assessments (SIAs) of EU trade agreements from a human rights perspective. It explores how the “Guiding Principles on Human Rights Impact Assessments of Trade and Investment Agreements” by Prof. De Schutter, (former) UN Special Rapporteur on...

Trade liberalization of oil and gas services is likely to involve three broad sets of issues that may be subject to negotiations. First, it is still rather controversial which economic activities in the hydrocarbon sector might constitute services and might be the object of multilateral trade...