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  The view from the summit: Gleneagles G8 one year on

  Oxfam, 2006

  One year after the G8 Summit at Gleneagels (2005), this paper examines progress that has been made since then in the areas of debt, aid, conflict, trade, and climate change.Debt Cancellation: in January 2006, the IMF cancelled the debts owed to it by 19 of the world’s poorest countries, which is the first part of the deal struck by the G8 in 2005 to cancel debts owed by up to 40 of the w
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  A critical Assessment of the EU’s trade-related assistance to third countries: lessons from the past, policy options for the future

  International Economic Development Group, ODI, 2006

  Having outlined the rational for trade-related assistance (TRA) and some lessons leaned from past European Commission (EC) programs, the authors outline the pros and cons of four possible options for EC-provided TRA:status quo:: this option fails to secure the foreseen increase in TRA to € 1bn., and makes it difficult to increase current levels of EC support for multilateral initi
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  Aid for Trade

  Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, 2006

  This paper starts from the premise that trade may be necessary for sustained industrial development, but it is not sufficient. In the right circumstances, trade liberalisation creates opportunities for development, but other factors determine the extent to which those opportunities are realised.
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  Global monitoring report, 2006:Millennium Development Goals: strengthening mutual accountability, aid,trade, and governance

  World Bank, 2006

  This report comments on global progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), focusing on aid, trade and financial dimensions of the process. It notes that, despite commitments to raising aid effectiveness from the G8 and the Paris Declaration, the world is still far from achieving the MDGs - particularly Africa and South Asia.
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  Aiding, trading or abetting: the future of trade, aid and security: 6 key objectives

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005

  This series of policy briefings outlines six key objectives that the international community should strive to achieve if trade and aid policy is to support peace and security rather than increasing the likelihood and longevity of violent conflict.
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  Where next?: setting the agenda for partnerships to 2015

  Asia 2015 Conference: Promoting Growth, Ending Poverty, 2006

  Can partnerships be improved within Asia and between Asia and its development partners? Following what principles? In what areas? And in what specific ways? The breadth and scope of current partnerships is evident in various domains: infrastructure; finance; trade; environment; the private sector; poverty and social exclusion; service delivery; and governance.
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  Aid for trade - why and how?

  International Lawyers and Economists Against Poverty, 2005

  This paper takes the position that the WTO’s Doha Round will promote development only if two conditions are met. First, an ambitious and balanced market access package in key areas such as agriculture or services. Second, an expanded "aid for trade” (AFT) package, both in general and with particular reference to the Doha Development Agenda process.
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  Trade interests of the tsunami affected countries

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2005

  In the context of suggestions that trade could be a more useful instrument to assist the recovery of affected countries than aid transfers alone, this paper examines the economies of the affected countries and identifies their overall trade interests and market access concerns.
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  Scaling up aid for trade: how to support poor countries to trade their way out of poverty

  Oxfam, 2005

  The notion of aid for trade covers many different types of intervention other than simply the distribution of money and goods. These include capacity and infrastructural-building initiatives, such as enhancing worker skills, modernising customs systems, building roads and ports, and improving agricultural productivity and export diversification.
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  Reality check: the distributional impact of privatization in developing countries

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2005

  This report looks at the privatisation of state-owned enterprises as a market reform. The volume brings together a comprehensive set of country studies on the effects of privatisation on people.

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