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  Inside the institutions: the World Bank and civil society

  Bretton Woods Project, 2003

  This article critically discusses the engagement of the World Bank with Civil Society Organisations (CSO).
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  Global environmental governance: options & opportunities

  Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 2002

  This collection of essays assembles the accumulated collective knowledge on global environmental governance generated by the Global Environmental Governance Project.
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  Sudan, oil, and human rights

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This report examines the human cost of oil, and corporate complicity in the Sudanese government’s human rights abuses. It finds that oil is an important obstacle to lasting peace in Sudan, and oil revenues have been used by the government to obtain weapons and ammunition that have enabled it to intensify the war and expand oil development.
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  Workers’ tool or PR ploy? A guide to codes of international labour practice

  Dialogue on globalisation, 2003

  Ethical production and consumption is the aim of several trade-related initiatives launched in recent years, including social labelling, WTO campaigns, framework agreements and codes of conduct.
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  Strengthening implementation of corporate social responsibility in global supply chains

  World Bank, 2003

  The specific objectives of this study are to a) identify the key barriers to improved implementation of codes of conduct at the level of suppliers, and b) identify and prioritize viable options for addressing these barriers.
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  Globalisation, humanitarianism and the erosion of refugee protection

  Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford, 2000

  The paper analyses the relationship between globalisation and humanitarianism, and examines what the implications are for refugee protection.
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  Towards a development-supportive dispute settlement system in the WTO

  International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2003

  The WTO’s dispute settlement system is not a neutral technocratic process in its structure and operation. This resource paper examines how it may become more supportive of the sustainable development goals of developing countries.
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  Globalizing embedded liberalism: some lessons for the WTO's 'development' round from the New International Economic Order (NIEO)

  Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, 2003

  Over the past four decades, efforts have been made at the United Nations to overcome the asymmetrical structure of world trade and distribute the benefits from participation in the trading system more equally.
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  What is the international community?

  Foreign Policy [Journal], 2002

  A special collection of articles by a number of notable authors, questions whether the international community truly exists. If so, who is part of it? How does it work?
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  Whither the world trading system? Trade policy reform, the WTO and prospects for the New Round

  Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2003

  Where does the World Trade Organisation fit in the overall scheme of international public policy? This paper examines the structural features of the WTO, set against the extended background of the world trading system post-Uruguay Round.

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