Publications
The Friends of Multilateralism Group
The papers, and any opinions expressed therein, do not represent the views of the Friends of Multilateralism Group (FMG)
Covid-19 and Trade
21st Century Tracking of Pandemic-Era Trade Policies in Food and Medical Products
Simon Evenett, as Professor of St. Gallen University, published this paper on 2nd May 2020 with the Global Trade Alert Team. Full text of this article can be downloaded via: https://www.globaltradealert.org/reports/54
Price of Pandemic: Weakened Trade System Exposed
Evan Rogerson published this commentary on 4th May for the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) as Adjunct Senior Fellow with the Centre for Multilateralism Studies at the RSIS. Full text of this article can...
WTO Reform
Advocates for friendshoring have not reckoned with digital trade
Hector Torres published this paper in February 2023 as Former Executive Director at the IMF and Former Counsellor at the WTO Appellate Body’s Secretariat and the Economic Research and Statistics Division. Full text of this report can be viewed via:...
Lao People’s Democratic Republic: A Retrospective on 10 Years of WTO Membership
This report was authored by Patrick Low, FMG Member and Former Chief Economist at the WTO. Full text of this report can be viewed via: https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news23_e/acc_03feb23_e.pdf
Others
Will the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act “Hoover up” European Investment?
On November 28th 2022, Simon Evenett published this paper as FMG member and Founder of the St. Gallen Endowment for Prosperity Through Trade. Full text of this paper can be viewed via:...
Emergent digital fragmentation: The perils of unilateralism
On June 28th 2022, Simon Evenett, FMG member and Founder of the St. Gallen Endowment for Prosperity Through Trade co-authored and published this report with Johannes Fritz. Full text of this note can be downloaded via:...