5 Trends That Have Shaped Global Subsidies Over Decades
Subsidies have long been debated: criticized for distorting markets and harming the environment, yet embraced to build green industries, protect ...
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What We Should Be Talking About When We Talk About World Trade Organization Reform
Institutional reform is the headline item at the WTO’s 14th Ministerial Conference (MC14) in March 2026. Most people outside Geneva do not ...
Harmful Subsidies Explained
This year marks 20 years since the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) launched the Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI), which ...
Milestone Reached as WTO Global Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies Enters Into Force
On September 15, 2025, the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies will enter into force, marking a milestone ...
The US Has Lost Its Trade War – We Have to Be Globalistic
Importing deflation is the globalistic answer to the US’s trade war, after its long list of lost wars It might ...
Trump’s Tariff War: US Bull May Get Gored in China Shop
China remains an exception after US President Donald Trump took two steps back from the fierce reciprocal tariffs he had ...
A New One Health Global Action Plan is Out!
Responding to international requests to prevent future pandemics and to promote health sustainably through the One Health approach, four major ...
War in Ukraine: More Weapons and Military Equipment Needed
Sanctions have proven not to work. What Ukraine now needs is more arms to resist the new Russian assault on ...
WTO Appoints First Female Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
The appointment of the first woman as Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) sends a strong signal that equality ...
Future Pandemics: How IMF and WTO Leadership Can Make the Difference
2021 begins with new international leadership in positions to make huge differences in the way the world deals with preventing, ...
COVID-19 Vaccines: More than Short-Term Solutions Are Needed
COVID-19 has dominated 2020 with unimaginable harm to health, economies, livelihood, and political stability. In the last few months, there ...
The Next Chapter in Sustainable Development Governance
The WTO's Marrakesh Agreement famously enshrined the objective of sustainable development in its preamble 25 years ago. Now, policy in this realm has ...
