trade and poverty
- 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 ...
- Circular migration - who benefits the most?
- P. Wickramasekara / Global Union Research Network, 2011
- ‘Circular migration’ has recently been promoted as a triple win solution, bringing benefits to destination countries, origin countries and migrant workers themselves, thus projecting it as a major mechanism to reap develop...
- Trade as a means to promote human dignity and economic justice
- A. Sommerfeldt; J. Onjala; H.M. Haugen / Norwegian Church Aid, 2006
- Trade is not an end in itself, but a means by which to promote human dignity, sustainable societies and economic justice. This publication aims to help identify some key problems of multilateral trade liberalisation, with particular r...
- Developed countries must meet their obligations on trade and climate change
- South Centre 2008
- This South Centre bulletin highlights the need for an integrated approach to addressing the challenges of development and climate change. It argues that both the trade and climate regimes have a key role to play in this and that, in e...
- Can small livestock producers compete with larger-scale farms?: evidence from Brazil, India, the Philippines and Thailand
- C.,L. Delgado; C.,A. Narrod; M.,M. Tiongco / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
- Livestock are among the few commodities that smallholder farmers widely produce that are growing rapidly in demand, and thus the interest for poverty alleviation is strong. However, there are signs that smallholders may ultimately be ...
- Mobilising the political will to address the "commodities problem"
- S. Asfaha / ActionAid International, 2008
- Commodity price fluctuation hinders economic development for commodity-exporting developing countries. It translates into export earning fluctuations, which results in reduced domestic investment in productive assets, which further le...
- Can improved natural resource exploitation and trade help reduce poverty in the Great Lakes region?
- Department for International Development, UK, 2007
- This document analyses natural resource exploitation and trade at four main border areas in the Great Lakes region. It looks at the mechanisms of exploitation for cassiterite, coltan, gold, copper and cobalt and also reviews regional ...
- Resisting neo-liberal policies in India: a series of critical articles
- Focus on the Global South, 2007
- It is predicted that India will be one of the economic powerhouses of the twenty-first century, with the current government focusing on the corporate sector. This collection of articles argues that progressive forces across India must...
- Unequal exchange: how poor wages in the South subsidise good living in the North
- C. Jedlicki / Jus Semper Global Alliance, 2007
- In this Brief, the author draws on economist Arghiri Emmanuel's theory of Unequal Exchange to argue that we endure a North-South system of exploitation, which has a direct and premeditated impact on the misery wages paid in all countr...
- Why build capacity for trade and investment in Africa?
- S. Sako; G. Kararach / African Capacity Building Foundation, 2007
- Given the experience of Africa over the last half century, it is clear that trade reform and openness alone is not sufficient to sustain economic growth and poverty reduction. Commitments made to developing countries under the Doha De...
- 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 ...
- Circular migration - who benefits the most?
- P. Wickramasekara / Global Union Research Network, 2011
- ‘Circular migration’ has recently been promoted as a triple win solution, bringing benefits to destination countries, origin countries and migrant workers themselves, thus projecting it as a major mechanism to reap develop...
- Trade as a means to promote human dignity and economic justice
- A. Sommerfeldt; J. Onjala; H.M. Haugen / Norwegian Church Aid, 2006
- Trade is not an end in itself, but a means by which to promote human dignity, sustainable societies and economic justice. This publication aims to help identify some key problems of multilateral trade liberalisation, with particular r...
- Developed countries must meet their obligations on trade and climate change
- South Centre 2008
- This South Centre bulletin highlights the need for an integrated approach to addressing the challenges of development and climate change. It argues that both the trade and climate regimes have a key role to play in this and that, in e...
- Can small livestock producers compete with larger-scale farms?: evidence from Brazil, India, the Philippines and Thailand
- C.,L. Delgado; C.,A. Narrod; M.,M. Tiongco / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
- Livestock are among the few commodities that smallholder farmers widely produce that are growing rapidly in demand, and thus the interest for poverty alleviation is strong. However, there are signs that smallholders may ultimately be ...
- Mobilising the political will to address the "commodities problem"
- S. Asfaha / ActionAid International, 2008
- Commodity price fluctuation hinders economic development for commodity-exporting developing countries. It translates into export earning fluctuations, which results in reduced domestic investment in productive assets, which further le...
- Can improved natural resource exploitation and trade help reduce poverty in the Great Lakes region?
- Department for International Development, UK, 2007
- This document analyses natural resource exploitation and trade at four main border areas in the Great Lakes region. It looks at the mechanisms of exploitation for cassiterite, coltan, gold, copper and cobalt and also reviews regional ...
- Resisting neo-liberal policies in India: a series of critical articles
- Focus on the Global South, 2007
- It is predicted that India will be one of the economic powerhouses of the twenty-first century, with the current government focusing on the corporate sector. This collection of articles argues that progressive forces across India must...
- Unequal exchange: how poor wages in the South subsidise good living in the North
- C. Jedlicki / Jus Semper Global Alliance, 2007
- In this Brief, the author draws on economist Arghiri Emmanuel's theory of Unequal Exchange to argue that we endure a North-South system of exploitation, which has a direct and premeditated impact on the misery wages paid in all countr...
- Why build capacity for trade and investment in Africa?
- S. Sako; G. Kararach / African Capacity Building Foundation, 2007
- Given the experience of Africa over the last half century, it is clear that trade reform and openness alone is not sufficient to sustain economic growth and poverty reduction. Commitments made to developing countries under the Doha De...
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