Protectionism

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan kept monetary policy steady on Thursday, preferring to save its dwindling ammunition, as a darkening global growth outlook prompts other major central banks to drop hints of additional stimulus. But the BOJ stressed anew …

As Japan prepares to host its first G20 leaders summit later this month, little remains of the open and cooperative spirit that marked the first such gathering in 2008. But although the United States will most likely continue its protectionist drift, other G2…

Canada is stunting its own economy and blocking businesses from reaping the benefits of innovation by clinging to protectionist policies that curb foreign investment, a new study from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management says. Relaxing res…

Typically, a producers “unfair” advantage simply derives from comparative advantage. Sometimes comparative advantage is man-made or “artificial,” which does not make it less of an actual comparative advantage. Government subsidies are a sort of artificial com…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 14 hit out at unilateralism and trade protectionism, and said that there is a need for a rules-based, anti-discriminatory and all inclusive WTO-centred multilateral trading system, amidst the raging trade war between the U…

THE DEATH OF POLITICS How to Heal Our Frayed Republic After TrumpBy Peter Wehner The presidency of Donald Trump offends Peter Wehner on many levels, but most of all as someone who takes ideas and words seriously. A former speechwriter for George W. Bush who …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday met Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Bishkek. Mr. Modi arrived in the Kyrgyz capital on June 13 for the SCO su…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday met Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Bishkek and discussed ways to further strengthen the bilateral relations. This is the first meeting between th…

Tweet … is from page 303 of Columbia University economics professor Arvind Panagariyas excellent 2019 book, Free Trade and Prosperity: dvocates of protectionism have provided no compelling evidence that interventions ubiquitous in the 1980s or 1990s were…

India's fourth largest IT services firm Wipro has flagged "increased protectionism" and risk of a "global trade war" among factors that could adversely impact its business, according to its regulatory filing. Wipro derives about 55 per cent of its IT services…