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  • American Workers vs. Surveillance Capitalism: The Future of Digital Trade Policy

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    By Burcu Kilic in CarrCentre Commentary (Kennedy School, Harvard), 10 Feb 2025 It has only been a few weeks since President Trump’s inauguration, and already, the relationship between political power and tech power has fundamentally shifted. Big tech CEOs not only had the front-row seats at the inauguration and received VIP treatment on Capitol Hill,…

  • Trade Liberalisation kicked away African Development Ladder

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    By Jomo Kwame Sundaram in IDEAS (originally IPS), 9 May 2024 Africans have long been promised trade liberalisation would accelerate growth and structural transformation. Instead, it has cut its modest production capacities, industry and food security. Berg helped sink Africa The 1981 Berg Report was long the World Bank blueprint for African economic reform. Despite lacking support…

  • Trade disputes over IP and health

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    Thanks to KEI for sharing the following references on trade related bullying. Time-line of Disputes over Compulsory Licensing  and Parallel Importation in South Africa, 1994 to 1999. http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/sa/sa-timeline.txt Susannah Markandya, Timeline of Trade Disputes involving Thailand and access to medicines, July 23, 2001   (Timeline entries from 1979 to 2001). http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/c/thailand/thailand.html Susannah Markandya, Timeline of disputes…