Subsidies in fisheries: Anomalies in WTO documents

Fisheries subsidies are government actions that confer an advantage on consumers or extractors of fish in order to supplement their income or lower their cost. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) seeks a solution within the framework of international trade rules to anomalies involving fisheries subsidies at the 11th Ministerial Conference...

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Influx of Rohingya refugees entails a serious burden on the economy

Some 830,000 Rohingya Muslims, a religious and ethnic minority community in Myanmar, have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh due to brutal military crackdown in Rakhine state since August 25, 2017. The United Nations has called the Rohingya the world's most persecuted minority group and described the atrocities by Myanmar's authorities as...

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Using data to combat prejudice against immigrants

What are the contributions of migrants to trade, to the economy of their countries of destination and origin? This is an angle that is generally ignored in the international debate on the subject, which usually focuses more on issues such as the incidence of foreigners in crime or unemployment.In order...

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