Author: Natalia Marino Perez

How Shrinking Policy Space in the International Trade Regime is Constraining Development

By Rachel Thrasher There is an unresolved tension between the network of rules that make up the global trading system, and the needs of the system’s individual countries. Indeed, troubling trends in treaty-making and international jurisprudence suggest global rules increasingly present obstacles to national governments pursuing development and economic expansion aims. Consisting of one multilateral […]

Webinar Summary: Trading Away Industrialization? The EU-MERCOSUR Agreement

By Natalia Marino On Thursday, June 10, the Boston University Global Development Policy Center hosted a webinar to discuss a new working paper analyzing the proposed EU-MERCOSUR free trade agreement (FTA), which has yet to take effect, but would represent the largest trade deal for both blocs in terms of number of citizens involved. Moderated […]