Intellectual property rights
- The Caribbean and climate change: the costs of inaction
- R. Bueno / Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 2008
- This report offers a preliminary examination of the potential financial costs to the island nations of the Caribbean if greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase unchecked. It accomplishes this b...
- All for one and one for all: intra-organizational dynamics in humanitarian action
- M. Webster (ed);P. Walker (ed) / Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 2009
- The spend on humanitarian crises has tripled in the last two decades. Indeed large-scale disasters such as Cyclone Nargis, the Indian Ocean tsunami and the recent earthquakes in Chi...
- Trading our way out of the financial crisis: the need for WTO reform
- K.P. Gallagher;T.A. Wise / Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 2009
- In the context of the deepening global crisis that is pushing millions into poverty in developing countries (DCs), development should be the central to reforming the global financial architecture. Pre...
- Resources, rules and international political economy: the politics of development in the WTO
- K.C. Shadlen / Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 2009
- This working paper examines the contemporary politics of IP and investment in the WTO. The paper examines the conflicts that pit developing and developed countries against each other in these two area...
- Looking beyond Doha: new thinking on trade policy and development
- H. Désir (ed) / Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 2008
- This paper represents the approach of Socialist Group in the European Parliament to the Doha process. It deems that socialists must try to find a balance between the two dominant attitudes in the nego...
- The global financial crisis and foreign direct investment in Latin America
- K.P. Gallagher / Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 2008
- Foreign direct investment (FDI) into Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) increased sevenfold between 1993 and 2007. In the wake of the global financial crisis, this trend is bound to reverse. This p...
- The promise and the perils of agricultural trade liberalisation: lessons from Latin America
- M. Pérez;S. Schlesinger;T.A Wise / Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 2008
- The new agricultural policies in Latin America have generated dramatic increases in agricultural trade. This report seeks to answer the question of whether these policies have produced sustainable rur...
- When more is less: the limited impact of foreign investment in the Americas
- K. Gallagher;K. López / Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 2008
- According to a report by the Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas the impact of foreign investment liberalisation in Latin America shows that, with some exceptions, foreign ...
- The state of female youth in northern Uganda: findings from the survey of war-affected youth (SWAY)
- J. Annan;C. Blattman;K. Carlson;D. Mazurana / Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 2008
- As peace talks being brokered by the Government of southern Sudan offer the prospect of an end to one of Africa’s longest conflicts (between the Government of Uganda and the Lords Resistance Arm...
- Multinationals and the maquila mindset in Mexico’s Silicon Valley
- L. Zarsky;K.P. Gallagher / Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 2007
- In joining the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Mexico expected a rise in foreign direct investment (FDI) that would bring environmental benefits through the growth of cleaner industry ...
