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The Importance of Bringing the WTO Joint Initiative on E-commerce Over the Finishing Line
The internet is a global public good that has facilitated and stimulated international services trade by lowering the barriers to entering international markets, including for micro, small and medium sized enterprises (MSMEs). It also enhances access to information for consumers and enables families and friends to stay in touch, students to learn, and doctors and patients to monitor health and access information about prevention and care.
Although digitalisation can vastly extend MSMEs’ reach beyond the local market, MSMEs are lagging in their digital transformation relative to larger firms. Moreover, the burden of regulation in dealing with complex privacy, security and data localisation requirements falls disproportionately on MSMEs. This is concerning in the context of high services trade barriers over the past decade and growing restrictions on cross-border data flows as documented by the OECD.
There is no doubt that global e-commerce and related cross-border data flows require governance to ensure cyber security and privacy. Interoperable rules and regulations across the globe would substantially ease the cost of trade in digitally enabled services for everyone. The WTO Joint Initiative (JI) on E-commerce, co-convened by Australia, Singapore, and Japan, is designed to fill the global governance gap. A key underlying objective is to deal with the array of differing digital regulatory approaches WTO members have adopted since the WTO Work Programme on E-commerce began in 1998, and the host of restrictive measures which have since been introduced.
This webinar takes stock of the state of play in bringing the JI over the finishing line and discusses the benefits of the agreement, remaining gaps, and the role of the WTO in governing digital services trade, cross-border data flows and international aspects of competition in the increasingly artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled digital platform economy.
- What is the state of play in the JI discussions (scope, timeline, participants)?
- What role can the WTO play in governing international digital markets?
- What are the benefits of the JI and in particular how can low-income countries benefit?
- How can the JI on E-commerce stay relevant and useful in the face of rapid technological progress, including AI?
Find out more: www.cepweb.org/the-importance-of-bringing-the-wto-joint-initiative-on-e-commerce-over-the-finishing-line/
Speakers:
Gerbera Choo, Singapore Delegation to the WTO
Pascal Kerneis, European Services Forum
Javier Lopez-Gonzalez, OECD
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås, Council on Economic Policies
Jane Drake-Brockman, Australian Services Roundtable (Moderator)
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  • @americanchamberofcommerceg1654
    @americanchamberofcommerceg1654 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Insightful discussion. what accounts for lack of interest from African countries and other LDCs in the e-commerce JSI?

  • @malcolm3779
    @malcolm3779 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "Promosm"

  • @tbird4a
    @tbird4a ปีที่แล้ว

    climate change is a hoax

  • @luciusdole3029
    @luciusdole3029 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    So sensible, so important, so little listened to.

  • @Thomas-ow8ld
    @Thomas-ow8ld 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    very nice video !

  • @nancy7557
    @nancy7557 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @bleacherz7503
    @bleacherz7503 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    confirmed my take on this. so frustrating

  • @SuperAlex1415
    @SuperAlex1415 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Less than 8k views....general population is in decadence and are indeed an easy prey

  • @SwarmerBees
    @SwarmerBees 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    White made a reference at 51:30 to the idea that when people are shocked by things they did not understand, they do not rethink but tend to only further entrench themselves in their belief systems. I believe he was referencing Daniel Kahneman, who covered this and related cognitive research on decision making in his book 'Thinking, Fast and Slow" (2011)

    • @lawrencebrown3677
      @lawrencebrown3677 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      This describes perfectly the mindset and preconceptions of most remain supporters in the Brexit debate.

  • @geoffreygardiner9564
    @geoffreygardiner9564 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    In his description of the Japanese recession Turner does not mention the effect of the implementation of the first Basel Capital Accord. In a study done by Professor David Llewellyn it was shown that the capital adequacy ratios of Japanese banks were as much as half those of British banks. To comply with the Basel Accord Japanese banks had to either raise masses of new capital or cut back on lending. They did the latter and asset values collapsed. Moreover Japanese banks had tried to be too clever. They had invested their capital bases in the equity shares of the companies they lent to and when the fall in asset values caused the Nikkei to fall 75 per cent, their capital bases fell similarly and their capital adequacy ratios collapsed. There is another explanation, that of Richard Werner in his book, 'The Princes of the Yen'. Richard's explanation and mine can live together: both may be true. Of course the debt problem was high-lighted long, long ago by Professor Michael Hudson. He has recently shown me his latest draft paper which demonstrates in detail the rise in debt.

  • @karimayoubi74
    @karimayoubi74 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Adair Turner is brilliant, and it is wonderful to see this kind of insight coming from someone who was a banking insider. I can't imagine Alan Greenspan demonstrating this level of understanding or introspection - he still can't believe we had a crash at all and no doubt thinks that aliens must have done it to us.

  • @lynnybee888
    @lynnybee888 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    A gang of criminal bankers refuses to take the losses.

  • @ecopsych101
    @ecopsych101 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    property values don't rise in the "big cities" because they are "successful" cities with the "high skilled" workers. They rise because the big cities, contain the companies, and by it's secondary effect, the people with access to front line Central Bank Credit Counterfeiting operations. THAT is the only thing that made your home in Central London go up 7x in 20+ years.

    • @Chachiboyss
      @Chachiboyss 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      That’s no different from what he said, douche

  • @perkurowski
    @perkurowski 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lord Turner should explain how much does his Lord Turner Report reflects what he is now arguing? www.fsa.gov.uk/pubs/other/turner_review.pdf

  • @perkurowski
    @perkurowski 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    “By 2007 banks in most countries had turned primarily into [SAFE] real estate [and to sovereign] lenders. The intermediation of household savings for [RISKY] productive investments in the business sector constitutes only a minor share of business banking today." The result of risk weighted capital requirements for banks. teawithft.blogspot.com/2010/12/regulators-are-quite-busy-fooling.html

  • @aramkrikorian9460
    @aramkrikorian9460 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Any intelligent person knows what's going on. Debt is like musical chairs - it's all fun and games until the music stops and then someone gets screwed. It's usually the populace who have been fed a bunch of trinkets while the elites enjoy caviar and champagne. In the end the average person finds out they've been paying the bill all along - and all they get is a T-shirt that says "I produced for the Rich and Famous, and all I got was this shitty T-shirt."

  • @ironmantooltime
    @ironmantooltime 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'd agree with inequality and real estate but I'm not sure we can say trade deficits are a driver of debt: they're a symptom. Uses of debt: investment, consumption, and a competition for assets that already exist, aka speculation. Excellent suggestion to increase the risk weight for prime mortgages to consider the overall social cost!

    • @karimayoubi74
      @karimayoubi74 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Think of it this way: in a 2 person economy, your spending is my income, and my spending is your income. In equilibrium I buy $100 of stuff from you, you buy $100 of stuff from me, we can keep going like that forever. But if I am running a trade surplus with you, then I am selling you more than I am buying from you. So how are you managing to buy more from me than your income allows? Answer: you have to be borrowing the money from somewhere. Thus one country's trade surplus HAS TO BE another country's debt (altough it can be either private or public).

  • @JimmyLeeJr
    @JimmyLeeJr 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    A very fun talk, I wish us all the best

  • @mikegoldstone6832
    @mikegoldstone6832 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    There were not many people in the audience.....

    • @benfrankog6111
      @benfrankog6111 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Becuz duh teevee is awn duhhh.

    • @karimayoubi74
      @karimayoubi74 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      As long as they were the right people....

  • @ss9922
    @ss9922 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    United States net savings / household income 1955: 14.6% 1965: 16.6% 1975: 8.1% 1985: 7.0% 1995: 7.3% 2005: 3.4% 2017: 2.3%

  • @RogerLewisGuitarPlayer
    @RogerLewisGuitarPlayer 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    The meme ´´The voters get the government they deserve´´is just unsupportable , Democracy is a competing elites model, the whole problem rests with Mis-governance and Collusion at the executive level in both the Banking Cartel / central bank level and the Ruling Class level. Blaming voters is really just ridiculous. Its a variation on blaming the victims for their suffering. Bankers simply do not have skin in the game the moral hazard is absent and this asymmetric distribution of Risk leads to those at the closest orbit of first use of minted money ( figuratively speaking) looting the people further down the food chain ( Its a debt deflation and thats what happens ( Fischer Chicago plan revisited, Steve Keen et-al Minsky fior details.). As usual the elements are all there the emphasis on the relative importance of the various actors are skewed ( turkeys don't vote for Christmas, Must be in Wealth of Nations somewhere). A good talk and some important issues raised but one Can't help but feel that this is a apologia for a dinosaur institution, Banking Is entering obsolescence as is Government the Block Chain can do a better job dis-intermediating and facilitating direct democracy and direct exchange in social and economic relations.

    • @adriantyler1820
      @adriantyler1820 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Roger Lewis, A return to some sort of gold standard is needed.

    • @RogerLewisGuitarPlayer
      @RogerLewisGuitarPlayer 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Adrian I actually support Bernard Leitaers proposal for a Basket of commodities called the Terra. www.lietaer.com/2010/01/terra/ I also support the idea of multiple complementary currencies also advocated by Lietaer. My own Monetary reform views and beliefs go even beyond a currency metric and extend to the abolition of Usury on this I have been greatly influenced by Helmuth Creutz. www.themoneysyndrome.org/index.php/publisher/ I highly recommend the Zarlenga book The Lost science of money www.monetary.org/lostscienceofmoney.html on Gold Adrian I would only say Gold is nothing and unuseful without monetised silver, I am not a Metal money bug but acknowledge the status as Gold and silver and the ratio of the two as of historic significance any work on numastatics and metrology will elaboratea. Zarlenga outlines in introduction very well.This metrology paper is excellent on the importance of Natural organic commoditiies (Cattle and Cereal Crops , Barley and Wheat to the value of and measurement of precious metals. www.ibiblio.org/bosak/pub/wam/canonical-grain-weight-key.pdf well worth a read.

    • @RogerLewisGuitarPlayer
      @RogerLewisGuitarPlayer 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Heres a couple of my poems, the research notes are full of references you might find interesting. letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.se/2016/02/usury-hells-fuel-and-mans-oppressor.html and tides of the dollar moon a lot shorter. letthemconfectsweeterlies.blogspot.se/2016/08/tides-of-dollar-moon-reading-live-stream.html

  • @gigagerard
    @gigagerard 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    After more than a year 1293 views, 14 thumbs and 0 comments on this excellent lecture. That's about average for economy lectures, watch ?v=dZi_WsCzmrE ^^ Columbia Business School "Predicting the Future of the World Economy". Only some of the conspiracy type lectures get enormous response, like 391,365 views, 1291 thumbs, 1,328 comments, watch ?v=u3oONvY1Bgg ^^ Christopher Greene of AMTV "China Hoarding Gold Before U.S. Dollar Collapse".