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Accelerating Digital Payments in Latin America and the Caribbean
Digital payment ecosystems are the invisible infrastructure powering commerce, trade and people’s daily lives. With the onset of global COVID-19 pandemic the...
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Conflict, Sanctions and the Future of World Trade
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been met with unprecedented trade and other economic sanctions. Some members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) have r...
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Supply Chain Sustainability Policies: State of Play
Supply chains are important levers for achieving sustainability goals and have gained increased corporate, governmental and civil society attention. This whi...
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Defining and Measuring Payment Interoperability
Leveraging the World Economic Forum's extensive community of payment experts, this report provides a forward-looking and inclusive approach to defining and m...
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Industrial Policy and International Competition: Trade and Investment Perspectives
This paper outlines the state of play and issues of concern in the areas of subsidies, state ownership and control, public procurement, investment screening ...
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Digital Trade in Services and Taxation
This white paper is a preliminary inquiry into the effects of DSTs on trade, investment and competition, drawing from multistakeholder interviews and a surve...
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Delivering a Climate Trade Agenda: Industry Insights
For this report, the World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Clifford Chance, interviewed representatives from more than 30 companies to better understan...
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Advancing Data Flow Governance in the Indo-Pacific: Four Country Analyses and Dialogues
This White Paper on advancing data flow governance in the Asia-Pacific region explores international and regional best practices in four domestic contexts.
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Digital FDI Policies, regulations and measures to attract FDI in the digital economy
FDI brings not only capital but also knowledge and technology. Attracting digital FDI can help economies and companies boost digital capabilities, but reflec...
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Facilitating Trade Along Circular Electronics Value Chains
Electronics are a critical part of our lives and even more so in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, however, too many electronics wind up i...
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Plastics, the Circular Economy and Global Trade
This briefing note draws on the expertise of trade and environment experts from across the plastics value chain to identify the key cross-border challenges t...
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Data Free Flow with Trust (DFFT): Paths towards Free and Trusted Data Flows
A major international initiative on data flows, the Osaka Track, was launched by heads of governments under Japan’s G20 leadership in 2019. This paper develo...
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