- Review of the impact of globalisation on the agricultural sectors and rural communities of ACP countries
- P. Robbins / Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 1999
- This paper attempts to review relevant sections of this work from an ACP perspective and to identify and clarify some of the key issues raised. The paper makes a number of suggestions that might assist ACP countries to develop policie...
- Reducing protectionism to open global markets: USA's official trade policy and ideology
- Scout Report, 2001
- This report boldly asserts that the Bush Administration is strongly committed to a trade policy that will remove trade barriers in foreign markets, while further liberalizing the domestic American market at home. This policy will, thr...
- The WTO agenda and the developing countries
- S. Laird / Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2000
- The paper argues that, in the light of reforms since the mid-1980s, the developing countries have an interest in a relatively broad-based agenda. This would include policies related to: tariffs on manufactured goods; FDI; competition ...
- Is the link between "globalizing" economies and economic performance a dubious one?
- D. Rodrik 2000
- This brief paper attacks Dollar and Kraay's widely read article 'Trade, growth and poverty'. Dollar and Kraay indicate that post-1980 "globalizers" performed better than "non-globalizers". Rodrik criticises this thesis on the basis th...
- Multilateral trade liberalisation reduced poverty
- T.W. Hertel; P.V. Preckel; J.A.L. Cranfield / Federal Agricultural Research Centre, Germany, 2000
- This study assesses the likely impacts of trade liberalisation on the incidence of poverty. The study attempts to maintain a multi-country focus on liberalisation by comparing experience in 5 countries (Thailand, Zambia, India ) ...
- Nike is neither protecting worker rights to freedom of association or collective bargaining in Indonesia
- T. Connor / Oxfam, 2000
- This report assesses how well Nike and its factory partners in one country, Indonesia, are protecting two particular rights, freedom of association and collective bargaining. It is based on peviously unpublished taped interview resear...
- Regional economic integration provides important stimulus for trade and foreign direct investment
- South Asia Network of Economic Research Institutes, 2000
- The prospect of free trade in South Asia raises the question of the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in regional integration. Author indicates that it is important to recognise that however critical trade is, economic integrati...
- What can be done to help farmers to position themselves within the global economy?
- J. Dixon; A. Gulliver; D. Gibbon / Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001
- For more than a decade, the proportion of internationally supported public investment directed at agriculture and the rural sector in developing countries has been declining. Moreover, this is occuring at a time in which the process o...
- ILO may be in vogue but are its teeth sharp enough to improve labor standards?
- K.A. Elliott / International Labour Organization, 2000
- Emphasises that linkage between trade policy and labor standards clearly exists. Although the International Labor Organization (ILO) has been persistently belittled for encouraging the incorporation of labor standards into trade agree...
- Fines are an effective alternative to trade sanctions in linking labor standards with trade agreements
- K.A. Elliott / International Labour Organization, 2001
- With the impasse over whether and how to link labor standards and trade agreements stretching into its eighth year, attention has turned to "monetary assessments," or fines, as alternatives to trade sanctions. Fines have the ad...
- The Meaning and Measurement of Poverty
- S. Maxwell / Overseas Development Institute, 1999
- Defining and measuring poverty barely kicks off the game. Only by understanding causes can the main business begin of designing, implementing and evaluating interventions. In designing poverty programmes, it is wise to respect the vis...
- Fashion victims: The Asian garment industry and globalisation
- Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 1998
- Report looks at the impact of globalisation on the lives of garment workers in Asia. Urban Missionaries, a CAFOD partner in the Philippines, carried out research on the increasing use of temporary contracts in the garment industry. In...
- Towards a new international financial architecture: Report of the Task Force of the Executive Committee on Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations
- Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 1999
- Recommendations on new institutions needed to cope with finanancial globalisation, and to avoid crises such those in East Asia and Latin America
- Restarting and Sustaining Growth and Development in Africa
- J. Duesenberry; A.A. Goldsmith; M. McPherson / Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1999
- Developes a framework for thinking about how to restart and sustain growth and development in Africa. The framework has three themes --- politics and institutions, macroeconomic management, and enhancing productivity. Concludes that A...
- The Poor and their Money: what have we learned?
- A. Marr / Overseas Development Institute, 1999
- Money markets ought to allocate finance where it is most needed, and thus contribute to greater productivity, employment and the reduction of poverty. Yet in practice they have not performed this function at all well. Vast segments of...
- Intellectual property rights and globalization: implications for developing countries
- C. Juma / Center for International Development, Harvard University, 1999
- Reviews the implications of the agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) under the World Trade Organization (WTO). It focuses on the national implemention of the TRIPS agreement, technological development, plant...
- Aid for Trade Development: Lessons for Lomé V
- K. Van Hove; H.B. Solignac Lecomte / European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999
- Reviews some recent initiatives that aim to improve the performance of trade-related aid projects. It then looks at the European Commission’s (EC) experience, considering the results of evaluations and assessing the new direction...
- Global and Domestic Factors of Financial Crises in Emerging Economies: Lessons from the East Asian Episodes (1997-1999)
- P. Bustelo; C. Garcia; I. Olivie / Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales, Madrid, 1999
- This paper suggests that a new approach is needed in order to identify the causes of the East Asian financial crises and that this new approach might be fruitful in reassessing the analyses and theories of financial crises in emerging...
- Global Economic Prospects and the Developing Countries 2000
- Prospects for Development [World Bank], 1999
- Annual report, reviews the recovery from the financial crisis and the prospects for developing countries; traces the impact of the crisis on poverty; analyzes the difficulties facing businesses and financial institutions in the East A...
- Why civil society groups should be trusted to play a significant role in the process of democratization
- M. Samvirke / Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke, 1999
- Danish INGO looks at arguments for supporting NGO and civil society groups. Reflects critically on the strengths as well as the weaknesses and challenges confronting civil society in the South in particular, based on the experiences o...
- Stability: International Journal of Security & Development
- Stability: International Journal of Security & Development is an open-access journal. It publishes research quickly and free of charge aiming to have a maximal impact upon policy and practice communities. Despite the allocation of significant policy attention and financial resources to a perceived relationship between development assistance, security and stability, a solid evidence...
- Africa Progress Panel
- The Africa Progress Panel consists of a group of individuals who lend their time to track and encourage progress in Africa, and to underscore shared responsibility between African leaders and their international partners for sustaining it. A Geneva-based Secretariat supports the Panel in three main areas: research and policy; advocacy and communication; and preparation of APP core produ...
- World Resources Report (WRR)
- The World Resources Report (WRR) provides policymakers around the world government, civil society, and business with analysis and insight about major environmental and development issues. It is the product of a 20-year partnership among the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank and the World Resources Institute.
- IDH Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH)
- IDH accelerates and upscales sustainable trade by building impact oriented coalitions of front running multinationals, civil society organisations, governments and other stakeholders. Through convening public and private interests, strengths and knowledge, IDH programs help make sustainability the new norm and deliver impact on Millennium Development Goals 1, 7 and 8.
- The Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)
- The Finnish Institute of International Affairs is a research institute that produces high quality, topical information on international relations and the EU.
- Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIF)
- The Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS) is a political science research centre.
- ephemera
- ephemera is an independent journal, supported by the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London.
- Economics Web Institute
- Institute focusing on economics and management
- The Global Industrial and Social Progress Research Institute (GISPRI)
- Japanese research organisation in a global context
- United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
- Multidisciplinary research institute on development economics
