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The Crisis in World Trade
- Sait Akman, Shiro Armstrong, Carlos Primo Braga, Uri Dadush, Anabel Gonzalez, Fukunari Kimura, Junji Nakagawa, Peter Rashish, and Akihiko Tamura
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Reinvigorating the WTO as a Negotiating Forum
- Junji Nakagawa, Sait Akman, Axel Berger, Eduardo Bianchi, Manjiao Chi, Uri Dadush, Jean Dong, Gabriel Felbermayr, Andreas Freytag, Anabel Gonzalez, Bernard Hoekman, David Laborde, Sandra Rios, Sabyasachi Saha, Claudia Schmucker, Akihiko Tamura, and Mark Wu
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Reforming the WTO AB: Short-term and Mid-term Options for DSU Reform, and Alternative Approaches in a Worst Case Scenario
- Tsuyoshi Kawase, Junji Nakagawa, Hugo Perezcano Diaz, Keith William Cameron Wilson, Manjiao Chi, Carlos Coelho, Peter Draper, and Christopher Findlay
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The Digital Economy for Economic Development: Free Flow of Data and Supporting Policies
- Lurong Chen, Wallace Cheng, Dan Ciuriak, Fukunari Kimura, Junji Nakagawa, Richard Pomfret, Gabriela Rigoni, and Johannes Schwarzer
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Services Trade for Sustainable, Balanced, and Inclusive Growth
- Carlos Primo Braga, Jane Drake-Brockman, Bernard Hoekman, J. Bradford Jensen, Patrick Low, Hamid Mamdouh, Pierre Sauvé, Johannes Schwarzer, and Sherry Stephenson
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Expanding and Restructuring Global Value Chains for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth
- Yasuyuki Todo, M. Sait Akman, Takashi Hattori, Sabyasachi Saha, and Natalya Volchkova
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Towards G20 Guiding Principles on Investment Facilitation for Sustainable Development
- Axel Berger, Ahmad Ghouri, Tomoko Ishikawa, Karl P. Sauvant, and Matthew Stephenson
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Task Force of Trade, Investment and Globalization
The world trading system is facing various challenges such as rising protectionism, unequal opportunities to engage in global value chains, and legal systems that are ill-equipped for digital trade and international trade in services. To address these issues, the task force will discuss policies to strengthen the WTO as a negotiating forum and both restore and reinforce the WTO dispute settlement procedure to improve the world trading system. The task force will also focus on goods and services trade policies and socially just and environmental-friendly investment policies that create mutual benefit for both developed and developing countries and mitigate the negative effects of globalization in order to achieve sustainable, balanced and inclusive development. Finally, the task force will explore how to establish well-balanced global rules that promote the free flow of data while also ensuring the protection of personal information in the era of digital trade. Through these discussions, the task force aims to foster common understanding on global issues and provide policy recommendations to G20 officials from an academic perspective.
*The following are the Policy Briefs written by the T20 Japan "Trade, Investment and Globalization Task Force".