- 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...
- IMF should go back to basics: concentrate on macro policy, crisis avoidance and crisis management
- J. Williamson / International Labour Organization, 2000
- Many of the discussions on a new international financial architecture that were spawned by the east Asian crisis have dealt with the future role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The article suggests that we have heard many ca...
- There is growing prominence for labour and environmental issues at the top of Nike
- D.F. Murphy; D. Mathew / New Academy of Business, UK, 2001
- This case study outlines Nike's experience in developing and implementing various labour practice initiatives in its footwear and apparel factories worldwide. Since the introduction of its first Code of Conduct in 1992, Nike has made ...
- Required: Integration of social and enviromental issues into ethical trade
- M Blowfield / Natural Resources Institute, UK, 1999
- Ethical trade is a fast growing area in terms of literature and practice. This article takes an overview of what is happening in the field, including the unpublished debates of many of ethical trade’s key players. The paper ident...
- Adapting recommended benchmarks for private sector initiatives such as codes of conduct
- International Labour Organization, 1999
- At its meeting during the 273rd Session (November 1998) of the Governing Body, the Working Party on the Social Dimensions of the Liberalization of International Trade requested the International Labour Office to prepare a short and fo...
- Voluntary labour standards help but the worst offences are prevented through binding rules
- R. Howitt / Clean Clothes Campaign, 1998
- Following a request by the Conference of Committee Chairmen of 10 March 1998, the President of Parliament announced at the sitting of 3 April 1998 that the Committee on Development and Cooperation had been authorised to draw up a repo...
- Globalisation has had contradictory effects on women workers and on women's activism
- V.M. Moghadam / Journal of World System Research, 2001
- This paper casts a gender perspective on globalization to illuminate the contradictory effects on women workers and on women ’s activism.The paper begins by examining the various dimensions of globalization (economic,political,an...
- How the economic crisis in Thailand has strengthened the open-market reform vision
- F.C. Deyo / Global Policy Forum, 2000
- This article seeks to assess the extent to which post-crisis economic and social policy has been durably influenced by the political turmoil and conflict rooted in the deep Thai recession of the late 1990s. More specifically the artic...
- Integrated environmental and trade policies lead to sustainable economic growth
- T. Panayotou / Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2000
- This article stresses that economic globalization impacts the environment and sustainable development in a wide variety of ways and through a multitude of channels. The primary goals of the paper are: to identify...
- Who are the world's rich, and poor? Is there a world's middle class?
- B. Milanovic; S. Yitzhaki / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2001
- Using national income and expenditure distribution data from 119 countries, this paper decomposes total income inequality between the individuals in the world, by continent and by "region" (countries grouped by income level). It uses ...
- Textiles Beyond the MFA Phase-Out
- D. Spinanger / Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, 1998
- The Uruguay Round (UR) Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC), which was meant to undo the MFA, is to be effected by the year 2005 despite inherent tendencies in the past to continually protect textile and clothing (T&C) industr...
- The WTO and Civil Society
- J.A. Scholte / Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, 1998
- In line with a general trend in contemporary global governance, the World Trade Organization has been developing increased links with civil society groups. If conducted well, these contacts can make important contributions towards gre...
- Modelling the Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Women, at Work and at Home: IDS research proposal
- A. Wood; M. Fontana / Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998
- Researching the uneven impact of globalisation (mainly trade) on women and men in developing countries. It aims to construct and apply models to analyse the effects of trade liberalisation on the monetary economy, the household econom...
- Gender Implications of Globalization: With specific reference to the Asian Financial Crisis
- M. Carr / United Nations Development Fund for Women, 1998
- Bridging the gap?: the parallel universes of the non-profit and non-governmental organisation research traditions and the changing context of voluntary action
- D. Lewis / Centre for Civil Society, LSE, 1998
- Makes a set of general observations about international third sector research and argues that there are currently two 'parallel universes' of literature. The first of these is work which focuses on the 'North' (on what are often terme...
- The Tax Treatment of Government Bonds
- John Norregaard / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Governments in some developed and in many developing countries have introduced favorable tax treatment for interest on government bonds, in some cases by fully exempting this source of income from taxation. Presumably these special ru...
- A Provincial View of Economic Integration
- Michael W Klein / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- How integrated are national economies? In a world abuzz with the word globalization many might think that the answer to this question is very integrated. However, recent evidence from a number of different sources indicates that natio...
- Deindustrialization: Causes and Implications
- Robert Rowthorn; Ramana Ramaswamy / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Increased globalization (the international integration of markets for goods, factors, and technology) has coincided in the past two decades with a shift in labor demand away from less-skilled workers toward those with more skills. Thi...
- Adjusting to New Realities: MENA, The Uruguay Round, and the EU-Mediterranean Initiative
- Patricia Alonso-Gamo; Susan Fennell; Khaled Sakr / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- The MENA region, with the exception of the GCC economies, is lagging behind in trade liberalization. This delay has had a negative impact on production efficiency and consumer welfare and will become more costly given the increasing g...
- Declaration of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Summit of the Americas)
- Center for Hemispheric Policy, 1999
- 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
