Trade has long proven to be an engine for growth and development, and in recent decades the countries of East Asia and the Pacific have been major beneficiaries of this phenomenon. However, many are ...

For the best part of a century, the world trade has grown exponentially on the back of rule-based multilateral trading system. The year of 2025 witnessed the 30th anniversary of the World Trade ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is a test for the multilateral system — one that could not have come at a worse time. The multilateral system is vital to keep supply chains open, allow medical supplies to flow ...

Free trade seems to have few supporters these days. Though actual trade volumes are recovering from the post-crisis recession and drop in commodity prices, “globalization” has become increasingly ...

The UN General Assembly President, Annalena Baerbock, on Wednesday pointed to a "more urgent make-or-break moment" in the new year across the globe and warned that the global multilateral system is ...

Urbanisation is one of the most consequential and dynamic forces of the twenty-first century. More than half of humanity already lives in cities; city-dwellers will account for two-thirds of the world ...

A special meeting on how best to strengthen the world’s multilateral system to better promote sustainable development kicked off at UN Headquarters in New York yesterday with a call for new thinking ...