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  2005 and sustainable development: why the UK government is part of the problem

  War on Want, 2005

  This brief argues that despite positioning itself as the champion of Africa and the environment, the UK government remains one of the chief obstacles in the fight against international poverty and environmental degradation.The issues highlighted in the brief include:the UK has pushed forward an offensive” agenda - which aims to open up developing country markets to EU exports in the ind
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  Tilting the world towards Africa

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2005

  In the light of the make Poverty History Campaign and the run up to the G8 Summit in July 2005, this paper compiles a number of arguments, ideas and statements related to African development.The main points it makes are:Make Poverty History has understandably concentrated on the needs of developing countries rather than their shortcomings Make Poverty History is providing a real and
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  Forthcoming changes in the EU banana and sugar markets: a menu ofoptions for an effective EU transitional package

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  Preferential access under the EU’s Sugar and Banana Protocols has supported large income transfers to a number of ACP countries. These transfers will be reduced under proposed reforms to the EU’s sugar and banana markets which are due to take place at the end of 2005.
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  Making trade work for development in 2005 : what the EU can do

  Oxfam, 2005

  In the run-up to the G8 meeting in Gleneagles, this Oxfam brief proposes a EU trade agenda for both the multilateral and bilateral arenas, which will enable the EU to ‘make poverty history’.
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  Engendering policy coherence for development: gender issues for the global policy agenda in the year 2005

  Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., 2005

  Using case studies, this paper explores the distributional consequences and gendered outcomes of the current international trade and financial policy regimes.
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  Growth and opportunity (African civil society perspectives on growth and opportunity)

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This paper captures perspectives of development activists in civil society and social movements in Africa.
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  NGOs at World Trade Organisation: the "democratic" dimension

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2005

  This article discusses the role of NGOs at the WTO and analyses the interface in order to ascertain the democratic potential of the former, particularly at ministerial conferences.Findings of the article include:within the theoretical paradigm, literature on the rollback of the state provided the overarching impetus for the increasing role of NGOsin 1996 the General Council of the W
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  The damage done: aid, death and dogma

  Christian Aid, 2005

  This briefing paper challenges the entrenched assumption that developing countries can only work their way out of poverty through radical economic liberalisation, calling for an end to aid conditional on such policies.
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  Policy coherence for development: issues in agriculture

  Trinity College, Dublin, 2005

  This paper surveys a range of issues that arise with respect to the coherence of OECD agricultural policies with the Millennium Development Goals’ objectives of reducing poverty and overcoming hunger in developing countries.Its findings include:the more comprehensive and deeper the liberalisation, the more likely that all countries can gainit makes sense, therefore, to include agric
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  Food aid or hidden dumping?: separating wheat from chaff

  Oxfam, 2005

  This briefing shows how current practices in food aid, especially those of the USA, create substantial adverse side-effects in trade that damage the livelihoods of poor farmers and prevent their economic opportunities from developing.

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