The Global Voices for Open Trade Grant for Researches on Free Trade

Atlas Network announced the launch of the Global Voices for Open Trade grant opportunity. This grant project is generously supported by the John Templeton Foundation. Both international and United States partners are eligible to apply.

For decades it appeared the debate surrounding free trade was settled. While most other topics in economics can often be cast in an ideological or political light, on the topic of international trade, everyone from Paul Krugman to Milton Friedman points to the critical role of trade in achieving prosperity. Despite this, Atlas Network has seen an alarming rise in anti-trade rhetoric and economic protectionism in recent years.

Atlas Network has launched its Global Voices for Open Trade grant program, which will provide six grants of $32,000 to Atlas Network partners each year for research and education projects designed to quantify the benefits of unilateral free trade policies and/or targeted reforms for the local/national economy. Projects can include research and dissemination efforts, media outreach that increases local understanding of free trade, and research that quantifies the consequences of trade.

Grantees selected for the Global Voices for Open Trade program will be accepted to participate in Atlas Network's annual Global Trade Collaboratories in 2019, 2020, and 2021 in New York City, where grantees and trade experts will engage in a facilitated, multi-day experience to boost their project’s chances for success.  

Atlas Network invites creative, visionary thinking on how best to advance a free trade agenda. The following prompts are designed to inspire such thinking, not constrain it. Atlas Network welcomes any proposal that represents your deepest convictions about what will be most effective in your country. That said, Atlas Network anticipates funding projects that tackle one or more of the following:

• Quantify the net benefits of unilateral free trade policies, particularly in relation to communities living in poverty;
• Target the media, political class, grassroots, and trade authorities with a compelling message of economic success via free competition;
• Identify and tell stories of the elite beneficiaries and disenfranchised victims of cronyism and corrupt trade policies, as well as the stories of those who benefit from free trade; and
• Quantify the effects of developed countries’ domestic subsidies on specific low-income economies in developing parts of the world.

About Atlas Network:

Atlas Network, formerly known as the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, is a nonprofit organization based in the United States which acts as an umbrella for libertarian and free-market groups. It was founded as a group to assist with the creation of organizations for the market economy in developing countries.

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