- Renegotiation of the Lome Convention: report by UK Select Committee on International Development
- International Development Committee, UK, 1998
- Concentrates on the contents of the Draft Negotiating Mandate which, subject to whatever modifications are made under the UK Presidency, will form the basis for negotiations with the ACP. with the aim of encouraging the UK Government ...
- Renegotiation of the Lome Convention: UK Governments response to the Select Committee on International Development's report
- International Development Committee, UK, 1998
- Who owns the ecosystem?
- C.C. Geisler; B.L. Bedford / Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999
- Paper is about how human society organizes its proprietary relationship to the biosphere and, in particular, the property implications of ecosystem management. Our premise is that ecosystem management is endangered by its "bigger-is-b...
- NAFTA Supplemental Agreements: Four Year Review
- J. McFadyen / Institute for International Economics, USA, 1998
- Examines the objectives and accomplishments to date of the NAAEC and the NAALC.1 It also includes a discussion of the USA-Mexico Border Environmental Cooperation Agreement (BECA) which was designed to address environmental infrastruct...
- Options for Future ACP-EU Trade Relations
- H. Solignac Lecomte / European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1998
- Improved export performance and greater trade openness can help ACP economies to achieve faster growth. They are also necessary as a stimulus to countries starting or re-starting a process of industrialisation. While this is primarily...
- 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...
- Competition policy and the global trading system : a developing country perspective
- Bernard Hoekman / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- Certain factors can maximize the pressure on privatized infrastructure companies to be more efficient: the threat of bankruptcy, internal controls imposed by shareholders, and external disciplines (such as the threat of hostile takeov...
- Protection and Trade in Services: A Survey
- Bernard Hoekman; Carlos Primo Baga / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- In the past, international economists have ignored trade in services, but technological progress and international trade negotiations are likely to keep liberalization of trade in services a high profile policy issue. Until rec...
- Regional Integration and Foreign Direct Investment: A Conceptual Framework and Three Cases
- Magnus Blomstrom; Ari Kokko / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- How regional investment agreements affect the flows of foreign direct investment depends on location, the competitiveness of local firms, the motives for investment, and how the agreement affects the policy environment.Blomstrom and Kokko d...
- Using Tariff Indices to Evaluate Preferential Trading Arrangements: An Application to Chile
- Eric Bond / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- A tariff index that, combined with a simple general equilibrium model, can be used to calculate more accurately how preferential tariff reductions affect sectoral output, factor prices, average tariff rates, and general welfare. ...
- Nigerian Perspectives on the Future Bilateral Free Trade Agreement between Norway and Nigeria
- C. Bu / Norwegian Council for Africa, 2012
- As the multilateral negotiations at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) are at a standstill, an increasing number of bilateral trade agreements are being negotiated. In Norway the multilateral negotiations are the responsibility of the...
- Small-scale and informal mining: a big problem for Latin American states
- J. Kuramoto / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2012
- Latin America has experienced substantial growth and transformation in small-scale mining, meaning it is often no longer small or artisanal, instead it is characterised by high informality and an increasing potential to generate confl...
- Brazil’s generous diplomacy: friendly dragon or paper tiger?
- R. Muggah; E. Passarelli Hamann / Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, 2012
- Featuring a stable democracy and dizzying economic growth, Brazil is fast on the way to acquiring global power status. The country is investing in enhanced multilateral and bilateral relationships as a means of leveraging trade and re...
- Comprehensive report detailing multi-sector trade opportunities and enabling conditions in the transition to a green economy
- United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2013
- Prepared by the Trade, Policy and Planning Unit of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), this report is a key component of the Green Economy and Trade Opportunities Project (GE-TOP). The aim of GE-TOP is to identify opportu...
- Understanding Wage Issues in the Tea Industry
- Oxfam, 2013
- Wage levels are an issue of concern across the globe as individuals, companies and governments wrestle with how wages paid to workers relate to costs of living, corporate and national competitiveness, profitability and broader macroec...
- What next for the BRICS Bank?
- N. Watson; M. Younis; S. Spratt / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
- A new development bank to be created by the ‘Rising Powers’ of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) is intended to promote greater cooperation between developing countries, and address what is seen by many...
- The Global Information Technology Report 2013: Growth and Jobs in a Hyperconnected World
- B. Bilbao-Osorio (ed); S. Dutta (ed); B. Lanvin (ed) / World Economic Forum, 2013
- The Networked Readiness Index presented in this report ranks 144 economies based on their capacity to exploit the opportunities offered by the digital age. This capacity is determined by the quality of the regulatory, business and inn...
- Fatal fashion: Analysis of recent factory fires in Pakistan and Bangladesh: a call to protect and respect garment workers’ lives
- Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2013
- The garment industry in both Bangladesh and Pakistan is recognised for paying low wages, demanding and unsafe working conditions, and the repression of unions. Workers are not organised and therefore not in the position to monitor or ...
- When does Aid for Trade work best?
- Y. Basnett; J. Engel; J. Kennan; C. Kingombe; I. Massa; D.W. te Velde / Overseas Development Institute, 2012
- Aid for Trade has emerged as an important vehicle for assisting developing countries to improve their trade capacity and to benefit from the expansion of global markets. But any optimism on the volume of Aid for Trade flows is punctua...
- How to make Trade for Aid successful
- Y. Basnett; J. Engle / Overseas Development Institute, 2013
- Aid for Trade (AfT) has emerged as an important vehicle to help the private sector in developing countries to improve its trade capacity and to benefit from the expansion of global markets, which would allow for economic growth and jo...
- Department of Economics, Strathclyde University
- University department. Research interests in the Department are wide-ranging, with particular emphasis on Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Regional Economics and Energy Economics.
- BRICS Information Centre
- Based at the University of Toronto, Canada, the BRICS Information Centre aims is to serve as a leading independent source of information and analysis on the BRICS interaction and institutions. Documentation from the BRICS and research and reports will be published on this website as they become available. Together with international partners from the BRICS countries, the BRICS Informati...
- BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS
- The BRICS Policy Center (BPC) / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS is a joint initiative of the City of Rio de Janeiro and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). The Center is dedicated to the study of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) and other middle powers, and it is administered by the Institute of International Relations...
- Global Economic Governance Africa (GEGAfrica)
- The aims of the GEGAfrica project are to undertake and promote research driven by African needs, to advise policymakers, and stimulate and inform public and media interest on global economic governance. It is a joint initiative of the International Development Law Unit at the University of Pretoria and the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA). The Global Economic Go...
- Secretaría General Iberoamericana (SEGIB)
- SEGIB is an Inter-governmental organisation for the provision of institutional and technical support to the Iberoamerican Conference and the Iberoamerican Summit Meeting of Heads of State and Heads of Government. SEGIB has member countries in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula - Spain, Portugal and Andorra.
- International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)
- The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) is a non-profit business organisation created in June 1999 to establish a functional international framework for trading in greenhouse gas emission reductions.
- 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.
- Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE)
- The SIRE aims to: develop and sustain a reputation for internationally excellent research in major fields of economics, building around and beyond existing strengths, enabling economics in Scotland to compete effectively in the global academic market place attract high quality graduate students to Scotland, consolidating and enhancing the growing success of...
- United Nations Development Policy and Analysis Division (DPAD)
- The development policy and analysis division (DPAD) is the main development research division of the United Nations secretariat.
- Anti-Corruption Research Network (ACRN)
- The Anti-Corruption Research Network (ACRN) is an online platform and the global meeting point for a research community that spans a wide range of disciplines and institutions. ACRN is a podium to present innovative findings and approaches in corruption / anti-corruption research, a sounding board to bounce off ideas and questions, a marketplace to announce jobs, events, courses and funding. The p...
