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The World Trading System at the Crossroads

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12:15 pm January 2019

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1:15 pm January 2019

Uri Dadush, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South, delivered a presentation at the periodic Brown Bag Lunch (BBL) seminars organized by the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI). 

The topic of Uri’s presentation was “The World Trading System at the Crossroads,” which was attended by 40 trade officials and experts from Japan and from diplomatic missions in Tokyo. 

In his presentation, he addressed the present difficulties of the trading system with a focus on three questions: (1) Can the WTO be revitalized? (2) Is the present US trade policy likely to persist in the long-run or is it an aberration? (3) Does China fit in the WTO? 

RIETI is the think-tank of METI, the Japanese Ministry of Economy and Trade, and is charged with leading the analytical work on trade for the coming G20 summit.  Uri Dadush is co-chair of that effort. 

This event took place in Tokyo, Japan.

For more information, see: https://www.rieti.go.jp/en/events/bbl/

Speakers
Uri Dadush
Non-Resident Senior Fellow
Uri Dadush is non-resident Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, where he served as Senior Fellow from its founding in 2014 until 2022. He is Research Professor at the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland and a non-resident scholar at Bruegel. He is based in Washington, DC, and is Principal of Economic Policy International, LLC, providing consulting services to the World Bank and to other international organizations as well as corporations. Previously, he served as Director of the International Economics Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and, at the World Bank, was Director of the International Trade, Economic Policy, and Development Prospects Departments. In the private sector before that he was President of the Economist Int ...