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  Trade for life: making trade work for poor people

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Globalisation and trade should help to bring the world’s rich and poor closer, but evidence shows that quite often the opposite is happening. Is there an alternative that will improve the plight of the poor?
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  Report on Integration in Africa (ARIA) 2002

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2002

  Summary of the draft report, which aims to establish the analytical tools, methods, and benchmarks for tracking integration in Africa's subregions.
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  Charging the use of global commons

  German Advisory Council on Global Change, 2002

  In this special report, the Council makes recommendations for a politically viable implementation of the concept of global user charges for three specific areas of application:charges on the use of airspace by aviationcharges on the use of the oceans by shipping,payments for non utilisation obligationsThe article recommends:introduction of global user charges in ord
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  Forests and the neoliberal economy: lessons from Indonesia and beyond: conference proceedings

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2001

  The conference consisted of two complementary sessions. The first session highlighted the results of the CIFOR/WWF-MPO research detailing the impacts of IMF/World Bank policy interventions on the forest and oil palm sectors of Indonesia. Next, the IMF presented their perspective on the challenges of developing policies to help re-float the Indonesian economy.
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  Trading away the future to private enterprise

  Straight Goods, 2002

  A background paper prepared by the Episcopal Commission for Social Affairs (CCCB) for the Conference on Humanizing the Global Economy. It briefly explains the Investor-State Mechanism, which is already in place in North America, and outlines some current controversies NAFTA is creating in each of its three member countries.
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  Greenwash + 10: The UN's Global Compact, corporate accountability and the Johannesburg Earth Summit

  Corporate Watch, 2002

  Looks at the relationship between the UN and corporations in the context of the forthcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). In particular the authors focus on the Global Compact, a high profile UN initiative building corporate partnerships based on adherence to key UN principles, and the activities of the BASD, a corporate lobby group.
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  Responses to the challenges of globalisation: a study on the international monetary and financial system and on financing for development

  European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 2002

  Discusses the reform of the international monetary and financial architecture as a response to global financial crises and the issue of financing and promoting development as a means to reduce global inequality.
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  Trade liberalisation and poverty: a handbook

  Gapresearch.org, IDS, 2001

  Openness to trade is a key element of economic policy; continuing extreme poverty in developing countries is a disgrace.
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  Does globalization help the poor?

  Alternet, 2002

  This article criticises the negative impact of the advocates of of economic globalization (World Bank; IMF; WTO) on the world's poor.The article finds that:the advocates of globalisation stress that those that oppose globalisation are hurting the poor by arresting the development of free trade and liberalisationeconomic globalisation is causing an acceleration in poverty and inequal
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  Globalisation and health: a framework for analysis and action

  Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO, 2001

  While there is a growing literature on the importance of globalisation for health, there is no consensus either on the pathways and mechanisms by which globalisation affects the health of populations or on the appropriate policy responses.

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