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Cvr: Trade in the 21st Century

Trade in the 21st Century

Edited by Bernard M. Hoekman and Ernesto Zedillo

2021

Men work at a containers terminal in Abidjan April 3, 2008. REUTERS/Luc Gnago (IVORY COAST)

Figure of the week: Momentum in trade going into the AfCFTA era

Chris Heitzig and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Thursday, January 14, 2021

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.- In the photo, a specialist works in a clinical laboratory amid the pandemic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Less affected by covid-19 than the rest of the continents, Africa begins a race for the vaccine. The continent hopes to vaccinate "3% of Africans between now and March 2021 and 20% by the end of next year," declared the regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Matshidiso Moeti, in Brazzaville.

Africa in the news: AfCFTA launches, Africa secures COVID-19 vaccines, and Niger and the Central African Republic vote

Saturday, January 9, 2021

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (C) attends a bilateral meeting inside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing August 18, 2011. China and the United States "have a responsibility to strengthen macro-economic policy coordination and together boost market confidence," Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping told visiting U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday, according to Chinese state media. REUTERS/Lintao Zhang/ Pool (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS)

The Biden administration’s China direction

Ryan Hass and Kaiser Kuo

Sinica

Thursday, January 7, 2021

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory Nigeria. December 35, 2018: A cross section of Wuse Market Abuja

Figure of the week: Perceptions of the AfCFTA among small enterprises in Nigeria

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Containers are seen at the Yangshan Deep-Water Port in Shanghai, China October 19, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song

Is America back? The high politics of trade in the Indo-Pacific

Monday, January 4, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Container boxes are seen at the Yangshan Deep Water Port, part of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, in Shanghai, China September 24, 2016. Picture taken September 24, 2016. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo/File Photo

Trade and National Security Exceptionalism

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

A woman from the Daborin Single Mothers Association gathers rice at a small processing plant in the northern Ghanaian town of Bolgatanga, February 1, 2008. The single mothers began their organisation to gain more freedom and financial independence in a district where most farmers live on the equivalent of about a dollar a day, according to Oxfam, which helps fund the women's programme. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (GHANA)

Mitigating short-term adjustment costs: Preparing for the AfCFTA

Hippolyte Fofack

Tuesday, December 29, 2020

A man sorts oranges inside a truck at the end of a night-long curfew ordered by Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Nairobi, Kenya March 29, 2020. REUTERS/Njeri Mwangi

Making the AfCFTA work for ‘The Africa We Want’

Hippolyte Fofack

Monday, December 28, 2020

U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden arrives with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping (not pictured) at a China-US Business Dialogue in the Beijing Hotel in Beijing August 19, 2011. China and the United States "have a responsibility to strengthen macro-economic policy coordination and together boost market confidence," Xi told visiting Biden on Thursday, according to Chinese state media. REUTERS/How Hwee Young/Pool (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS)

Obama’s past and Biden’s future with China

David Barboza and Jeffrey A. Bader

Sunday, December 20, 2020