Agriculture
- The rough guide to transparency and natural resource revenues
- K. Astill / Catholic Fund for Overseas Development , 2007
- This document examines the oil industry in Africa, and provides an overview of the multistakeholder Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and the NGO-coalition Publish What You Pay (...
- Frequently asked questions on special products
- Catholic Fund for Overseas Development , 2007
- In the context of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) agriculture negotiations, the proposal on Special Products (SPs) is of fundamental importance to the majority of developing countries. It is also a...
- Views from the South: conference report on ethical trade
- D Green / Catholic Fund for Overseas Development , 1998
- The consultation was organised by the Monitoring and Verification Working Group (the group of UK NGO members of the Ethical Trading Initiative) as a contribution to the ETI's need for southern partici...
- PRS: poverty reduction or public relations strategies?
- H. Northover / Catholic Fund for Overseas Development , 2000
- As a response to the criticisms from campaigning groups and NGOs throughout the world, the Boards of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund commissioned the 1999 Fundamental Review of the HIPC...
- New development tools or empty acronyms?: the reality behind the Comprehensive Development Framework and Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers
- A. Woods / Catholic Fund for Overseas Development , 2000
- Within the last couple of years there has been a re-examination of how aid is delivered in the light of concerns about its effectiveness particularly for reducing poverty. Whilst "pro-poor" policie...
- Capital Punishment: Making International Finance Work for the World's Poor
- D. Green / Catholic Fund for Overseas Development , 1999
- A new challenge confronts the struggle to end world poverty: the growing size and instability of international financial markets. Since the Mexican crash of 1994, a series of financial crises have thr...
- 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 c...
- Taming the tigers: the IMF and the Asian crisis
- N. Bullard; W. Bello; K Malhotra / Catholic Fund for Overseas Development , 1998
- Report begins by describing what actually happened in the three worst hit countries of Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea. It goes on to explore the human impact of the crisis. These chapters provide...
- Counting the cost of gold
- A. Lindsay; G. McDonald / Catholic Fund for Overseas Development , 2006
- This report looks at the changes needed to ensure that gold mining will benefit development in resource rich countries, for example by generating revenue and creating jobs.With reference to case st...
- A depreciating asset, too high a price: the implications of the decision to end EU export subsidies by 2013: and why dumping will continue
- M. Griffith; T. Reichert; T. Rice / Catholic Fund for Overseas Development , 2006
- This brief critically examines the draft agreement reached at the end of the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial by the European Union to put and end date of 2013 on its export subsidies. While the elimination ...
