The detailed and robust research on trade and poverty conducted by Sussex economists together with IDS have influenced the trade policy debate. Since the work became widely known, trade policy debate has become much calmer and more reasoned. The assessments of poverty impacts of trade policy have become commonplace in developing countries as well as in donors. Similarly, research on migration, regional integration and EU GSP - the latter conducted at Centre for Analysis of Regional Integration at Sussex (CARIS) - has fed into many governments and international organisations’ policy deliberations.
The main areas of research within International Trade and Trade Policy include:
- trade and FDI;
- trade and investment in services sectors;
- trade and industrial organisation;
- trade and natural resources (energy, water);
- regional integration and WTO;
- vertical specialisation and effects of competition from emerging markets, especially from China on third countries at firm-level, and;
- trade and migration.