Abstract: This video explores the creation of the world’s largest free trade area. The new trading bloc, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), covers about one third of the world’s trade and one third of the world’s population. The RCEP…
Abstract: This video explores China’s position as the factory floor for the world in theage of a global pandemic. China is responsible for the production of much of the world’ssupply of protective equipment used by heath care workers. As such,…
Abstract: This video explores human rights violations associated with U.S. imports ofbeef from Nicaragua. While Nicaragua has seen the United States as an important exportmarket for some time, U.S. demand for Nicaraguan beef soared early in the COVID-19pandemic as the…
External video link: (Run time: 2:27). Abstract: As part of a crackdown on big tech firms like Amazon, Google, and Facebook, the European Trade Commission has charged Amazon with violating European Union anti-trust legislation. According to the European Commission,…
Video Clip: (Time: 3:04) Abstract: As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt business and lives across the world, one industry that is still growing is Africa’s mobile money business. In sub-Saharan Africa, digital cash, or mobile money as it…
Abstract: The state of the U.S. steel industry is often a bellwether of sorts on the state ofthe economy in places like Pennsylvania, where many depend on the industry for theirlivelihood. So, it was no surprise that as a presidential…
Abstract: The recent announcement by the U.S. Commerce Department that in August,the United States recorded its largest trade deficit in 14 years drew mixed reactions fromanalysts and economists. Some voiced concern that the trade deficit would represent adrag on the…
Japan, like the rest of the world, is struggling to get its economy back on trackfollowing closures related to the COVID-19 pandemic earlier this year. Unlike manycountries however, Japan is highly dependent on exports for economic growth, a situationthat has…
Abstract: This video explores the race to develop a vaccine to protect against COVID-19. Since the beginning of the pandemic, there has been intense pressure to find a vaccine that will limit the spread of the disease. More than 160…