Wage growth around the world slowed in 2013 to 2.0 per cent and has yet to catch up to the pre-crisis rates of about 3.0 per cent, according to the ILO's Global Wage Report 2014/2015. A modest wage growth was driven by some emerging economies where wages increased by 6.7 per cent in 2012 (...)
Agriculture negotiators speaking in a 4 December 2014 meeting of the full WTO membership welcomed the previous week’s General Council decision unblocking work on the current talks and pledged renewed energy to meet two deadlines in (...)
As in other parts of the world, Arab countries have seen an increase in – mainly female – migrant domestic workers, who have become the primary care providers in the household. This is the result of many contributing factors including the lack of affordable and well-regulated social care (...)
Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, in his address to the African Union Conference of Ministers of Trade on 4 December in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, said that African nations stand to benefit from the recent WTO decisions on the Bali agreements, including on the Trade Facilitation Agreement, which (...)
The government of Germany has pledged a donation of EUR 1 million (CHF 1,202,000) to the WTO Doha Development Agenda Global Trust Fund for 2014. This donation will finance a wide range of trade-related technical assistance activities to help developing and least-developed countries (LDCs) to (...)
برگزاري كارگاه آموزشي 2 روزه توسط كانون عالي انجمنهاي صنفي كارفرمايي ايران پس از سلام، همانگونه كه مسحتضريد كانون عالي انجمنهاي صنفي كارفرماياي ايران با دعوت از آقاي آرنوت دي كاسنر مدير بخش كارفرمايي مركز تورين (ACT EMPT) (زير مجموعه قسمت امور كارفرمايي سازمان بينالمللي كار) مستقر در تورين - ايتاليا، و گوتابا داساناياكا، كارشناس (...)
On 28 November 2014, the United States filed a Notice of Appeal in “US – Certain Country of Origin Labelling (COOL) Requirements (Article 21.5 – Canada and Mexico)” (WT/DS384, WT/DS386).
The “Cotton-4” countries seeking a level playing field in the sector — Burkina Faso, Benin, Chad and Mali — told WTO members on 28 November that recent price falls were hurting their producers and called for a swift conclusion to the negotiations to slash policies that distort (...)
WTO members questioned each other about the trade policies that they believe could be contributing to falling prices, slack trade and shifting market shares, when they met on 28 November 2014 for the second dedicated discussion on cotton under the agriculture (...)
A special meeting of the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB ) was convened on 28 November 2014, at the request of Canada and Mexico, to adopt the panel reports in the disputes “United States — Certain Country of Origin Labelling (COOL) Requirements: Recourse to Article 21.5 (“Compliance Panel”) of the (...)