Trade monitoring
Biographies of the panellists
HE Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, born on April 22, 1938 in Jaffa, is the Chairman and Founder of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAG-Org). Founded in 1972, TAG-Org is an international professional services group, which operates out of its 73 offices in the Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan, India, Cyprus and China. It has representative offices in Europe and North America and non-exclusive strategic alliance agreements with various networks and individual firms, thus enabling it to choose a firm best suited to its clients’ needs in virtually every country in the world.
Remerciements
La présente publication a été établie sous la direction de Hubert Escaith, Chef statisticien et Andreas Maurer, Chef de la Section des statistiques du commerce international. La coordination et la production des tableaux, des graphiques et des cartes du rapport a été supervisée par Ninez Piezas Jerbi, avec l'assistance de Emma Vestesson et Caterina Calzolari. Les recherches statistiques, la compilation des données et l'établissement des estimations ont été effectués par Barbara d'Andrea Adrian, Christophe Degain, Florian Eberth, Antonella Liberatore, Joscelyn Magdeleine, Yann Marcus, Ninez Piezas Jerbi, Bekele Tamenu et Ying Yan
Spotlight: Nairobi Ministerial Conference
The WTO’s Tenth Ministerial Conference, held in Nairobi from 15 to 19 December 2015, adopted a range of decisions on agriculture, cotton and issues related to least-developed countries. The decisions include a commitment to abolish export subsidies for farm exports, which Director-General Roberto Azevêdo hailed as the “most significant outcome on agriculture” in the organization’s 20-year history. In their Nairobi Declaration, ministers acknowledged that WTO members “have different views” on how to address the future of the Doha Round negotiations. The Conference also approved the accessions of Liberia and Afghanistan. A landmark information technology deal was concluded.
Cooperation with academic institutions
The WTO Chairs Programme (WCP) launched a new book on reducing trade costs and inclusive growth at the WCP Annual Conference in November. The WCP’s Advisory Board reviewed the achievements of the programme, which aims to support trade-related activities by universities in developing countries, and discussed how to ensure its sustainability. In 2016, 12 activities were implemented under the Academic Support Programme (ASP).