Topic: Free Trade

Airlines flying in Europe are finding different ways for handling the new emission trading scheme that took effect for European Union nations at...

Taking back globalization

By Olivier De Schutter DAVOS ? The World Economic Forum's annual gathering is normally little more than a toast to the benefits of increasing...

AU Wants to Double Intra-African Trade

The African Union Commission wants to see intra-African trade double, from its current level of 10-12 per cent of the entire continent's trade, to...

Error to exempt city from CETA

Although talks between the Canadian government and the European Union on a proposed free-trade agreement mostly have taken place behind closed ...

Globalised food system has failed the poor

THE World Economic Forum's annual gathering is usually little more than a toast to the benefits of increasing global gross domestic product (GDP)...

Romney best for economy

Americans have been going though very challenging times since 2007 when we felt the loss of $11 trillion in stocks, bonds, bank mortgages, interest...

Jeb Bush on Immigration

(Ilya Somin) . In this recent Washington Post op ed on how the GOP can increase its appeal to Hispanic voters, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush...
The Customs Department broke its revenue collection record with RM30.4bil last year, the highest ever.. . Its director-general Datuk Seri Mohamed...

Is President Obama a Mercantilist?

I think this is right. As I've said, I have doubts about relying upon increasing exports as our growth policy for the future, but what the...

The mercantilist impulse

MATTHEW YGLESIAS, writing at Slate, is perplexed by Barack Obama's plan to "boost the economy by hindering trade". He argues that in his...