Publications
The Friends of Multilateralism Group
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WTO Reform
Can the world trading system survive Donald Trump?
Alan Wolff published this blog in November 2024 as FMG Member and Former Deputy Director-General of the WTO. Full text of this blog can be viewed via: ...
Is the World Trade Organization still relevant?
Alan Wolff published this blog in December 2024 as FMG Member and Former Deputy Director-General of the WTO. Full text of this blog can be viewed via: https://www.piie.com/publications/policy-briefs/2024/world-trade-organization-still-relevant
FMG One-Pagers
FMG Launches Its Second One-pager Input Paper: The Underestimated Costs of Protectionism
On 25th March 2024, FMG launches its second one-pager input paper "The Underestimated Costs of Protectionism", as a complement and follow-up to its first note launched during WTO Public Forum in 2023 (The first note can be view...
FMG Launches Its First One-pager Input Paper for the WTO Public Forum
Recently, Friends of Multilateralism Group (FMG) and its members following with worries about the trade policy trends around the world, from threats to launch "tariff wars", to waste tax payers money on distorting subsidies, to struggle with where to position private...
Covid-19 and Trade
Arriving at an equitable response to the pandemic
Pradeep S Mehta co-authored this article in December 2021 with Sneha Singh as founder Secretary General of the Jaipur-based Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS International). Full text of this article can be viewed via: https://bit.ly/3lZKMvO
How Much Vaccine Will Be Produced This Year?
Simon Evenett published this article on May 20th as Professor of Economics at University of St. Gallen Switzerland, and Founder of St. Gallen Endowment for Prosperity Through Trade. Full text of this article can be downloaded via:...
Others
Geopolitics and the World Trading System
Michele Ruta co-authored this working paper in December 2024 as Friend of FMG and Deputy Division Chief in the Strategy and Policy Review Department of the International Monetary Fund. Full text of this article can be viewed via:...
Good regulatory practice for services in the digital era: challenges for APEC
Mia Mikic, Chair of FMG Board and former Director of Trade, Investment and Innovation Division of the United Nations ESCAP; and Sherry Stephenson, FMG Board member and the Services Convenor for the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) co-authored this policy...