Tag: WTO

The World Trade Organization (WTO) has provided a cautiously optimistic outlook for global merchandise trade, forecasting a 2.6 percent increase in 2024 and a further 3.3 percent rise in 2025. ...

Deputy Director-General of the WTO, Anabel González, has stated that the growing risks to food security and market uncertainties underline the need to enhance transparency about agricultural trade measures and ...

A new study that looked into the current volatility in the fertilizers market and its impact on agricultural production has called for urgent action to address the fertilizer crisis. The ...

The World Trade Organization (WTO) and International Finance Corporation (IFC) have launched a joint publication on Trade Finance in West Africa. The publication was launched by WTO Director-General, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, ...

1.0 Introduction The global economy faces a trilemma of issues namely, climate change, poverty and inequality, and food insecurity which are posing existential threats to countries across the globe. There ...

World Bank Group and other agencies have stated that the war in Ukraine continues to exacerbate the global food security and nutrition crisis, with high and volatile energy, food and ...

World services trade continued to grow into the second quarter of 2022, indicating resilience to the conflict in Ukraine, according to the WTO’s Services Trade Barometer released today, Thursday, June ...

The conflict in Ukraine and recent pandemic-related lockdowns in China appears to be dampening global goods trade in the first half of 2022, according to the latest WTO Goods Trade ...

Trademap, the WTO's international trade database estimated that Africa imports seven times more goods from Russia than it exports to the African continent. In 2020 alone, Africa imported $12.4billion worth ...

Prospects for the global economy have darkened since the outbreak of war in Ukraine on 24th February, 2022, prompting WTO economists to reassess their projections for world trade over the ...