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  Fin(d)ing our way on trade and labor standards?

  International Labour Organization, 2001

  With the impasse over whether and how to link labor standards and trade agreements stretching into its eighth year, attention has turned to "monetary assessments," or fines, as alternatives to trade sanctions.Fines have the advantage of adding "teeth" to agreements on labor standards without impeding trade and may be more palatable to developing countries than trade measures.
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  The urgent need for economic transformation: subordinating the interests of finance capital to human rights

  Jubilee Research, 2001

  This article attempts to challenge the dominance of finance capital in our global economy.The article stresses that if we wish to avoid a return to the deflationary era of the 1920's and 1930's, then some means must be found to discipline international financial capital.
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  The debate on the international financial architecture: reforming the reformers

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2000

  This paper briefly surveys the progress made in various areas of reform of the international financial architecture since the outbreak of the East Asian crisis, and explains the principal technical and political obstacles encountered in carrying out fundamental changes capable of dealing with global and systemic instability.
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  The determinants of the national position of Brazil on climate change : empirical reflections

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  International negotiations on the Framework Convention on Climate Change have been characterized by severe polarization between developed and developing countries. The G77, led by major countries such as Brazil, India, and China, illustrated a remarkable capacity to manifest its importance in the final text of the Convention.
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  UNDP Human Development Report 1999

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1999

  Focuses on issues of inter-dependence and globalisation. Considers how markets have been allowed to dominate the process, and the benefits and opportunities have not been shared equitably. Argues that while many millions of people are being further marginalized by their lack of access to new technologies, including the Internet, growing inequalities are not inevitable.
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  Environmental change and human health in countries of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP)

  Stockholm Environment Institute, 1999

  Aims to first briefly describe the broad global, economic, political, social, institutional context in which ACP countries currently find themselves. Describes the health status and key health threats in ACP countries in an environmental context and reviews environmental developments in the region and the ways in which they are influencing health.
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  Civil society participation in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs)

  DFID White Paper on Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation Work for the Poor, 2000

  In 1999, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), backed by the donor countries, announced a new framework for international assistance, expressed through the Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF) and the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs).
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  Eliminating world poverty: making globalisation work for the poor

  DFID White Paper on Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation Work for the Poor, 2000

  While progress has been made over the years in development, many challenges yet remain in order to make globalisation work for the poor.
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  Liberalization, Globalization and Income Distribution

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 1999

  Recent mainstream analyses of changes in income distribution over the post World War II period have concluded that income inequality within countries tends to be stable, that there is no strong association between growth and inequality and that, therefore, poverty is best reduced through growth-oriented, rather than distributive, policies.This paper challenges this view.
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  Globalisation, poverty and inequality in Zambia during the 1990s

  OECD Development Centre, 2000

  Zambia has undergone a dramatic transformation of economic policy during the 1990s. The election in 1991 of the Movement for Multi-party Democracy government saw the introduction of a series of major economic reforms designed to transform the Zambian economy from a relatively inward looking and state dominated economy to an outward oriented economy based upon private enterprise.

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