The UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods -- The CISG Read more about The UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods -- The CISG Dr. Butler discussed the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) as a means to facilitate cross-border trade for Pacific Island businesses. She said that predictable legal frameworks are crucial to generating inclusive, sustainable and equitable development, economic growth, employment, and investment, as well as to facilitating entrepreneurship. A modern and harmonised international commercial law framework is the foundation of rule-based commercial relations and an indispensable part of international trade.
Asha Sundaram Keywords economics international trade Development economics Read more about Asha Sundaram Asha Sundaram is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Auckland. She has an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, the United Kingdom, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Syracuse University, United States. Her research interests are in the fields of International Trade and Development Economics.
Donghyun Park Keywords ADB ERCD international finance international trade Development economics asian development outlook Asia Bond Monitor Read more about Donghyun Park Dr. Donghyun PARK is currently Principal Economist at the Economics Research and Regional Cooperation Department (ERCD) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), which he joined in April 2007. Prior to joining ADB, he was a tenured Associate Professor of Economics at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Dr. Park has a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA, and his main research fields are international finance, international trade, and development economics.