Blogs

A snapshot of how life would be if we blocked free trade?

April 19, 2010

Closed airspace is costing Kenya £1.9m a day: 3000 tonnes of flowers lie rotting and thousands of...

Mismanagement, not trade, is at fault for water shortages

April 19, 2010

Water study by Royal Society of Engineers ignores the many benefits free trade has brought poor...

Unlike trade, political bickering with Chinese will cost US jobs

April 16, 2010

Everybody knows that the obsession in Washington D.C. with the valuation of the Chinese currency is a proxy for concerns about the American bilateral trade deficit with China and the...

Obama’s trade polices leave much to be desired

April 9, 2010

Not that he has much of a trade policy at all, but one of President Obama’s aims has been to...

Argentina: Where's the beef? Populism vs. contracts and trade

April 9, 2010

BUENOS AIRES - Argentina halted beef exports at customs posts last week and containers were unloaded from ships. No law had been passed, no legal decree had been issued--apparently just a...

Why globalisation works

April 8, 2010

Couldn’t have said it better myself: “...

Treatment that is worse than the disease

April 7, 2010

The U.S. Trade...

Red tape and regulation is forcing Nigerian businesses out of the formal sector

April 1, 2010

Out of 183 economies measured by the World Bank, Nigeria ranks 125^th in terms of the...

US government report highlights barriers to trade

April 1, 2010

The U.S. Trade Representative has released its annual report on...