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MSF Briefing Document for G8, Evian, France
Médecins Sans Frontières, 2003Examines the health related goals endorsed by the 2000 G8 ministerial summit in Okinawa and re-evaluates what needs to be done in order for these goals to be met.DocumentCivil society statement on policy coherence. ECOSOC Special High-Level meeting with the Bretton Woods Institutions and the World Trade Organization
Rethinking Bretton Woods Campaign, COC, 2003This NGO joint statement on the policy coherence agenda of the World Bank / IMF and WTO argues that “misguided and failed” World Bank and IMF policy reforms on the liberalization of trade and financial flows, deregulation, privatization and budget austerity are now being locked into international trade law.The report highlights impacts on areas such as food security and access to essential serDocumentBuilding capacity to trade: what are the priorities?
Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 2002This paper questions the meaning of the Doha Declaration when it stresses the “important role” of “well targeted, sustainably financed technical assistance and capacity-building programmes". It questions the purpose of “trade capacity building” (TCB) and asks who should provide this assistance and how?DocumentWhat NEPAD implies for African policy makers
United Nations Online Network in Public Administration and Finance, 2002This paper explores the implications of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) for African policy makers.Drawing on the content of the NEPAD document, the paper asserts that finance and economic development framework will be critical in ensuring the successful implementation of NEPAD, because sound economic policy-making and execution are preconditions for the renewal of Africa.DocumentDAC guidelines on strengthening trade capacity for development
OECD Development Co-operation Directorate: DAC Guidelines, 2001These guidelines provide overall policy guidance and a common reference point for the trade, aid, and finance communities on capacity development for trade, putting trade capacity building in the context of comprehensive approaches to development and poverty reduction. They also review and analyse the strategic importance of trade capacity development.DocumentRanking the rich: the first annual CGD/FP commitment to development index
Center for Global Development, USA, 2003Foreign Policy and the Center for Global Development have developed a new ranking system that grades the efforts of the 21 richest nations to assist the development of poorer nations.DocumentToo hot to handle?: the absence of trade policy from PRSPs
Christian Aid, 2003This briefing note draws on research commissioned by Christian Aid into the trade and poverty content of PRSPs. This document argues that the discussion around PRSPs in many countries, does not fully take into account the impact of trade policies among the poor.DocumentAlternative paths to prosperity: economic integration among Arab countries
Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES), Egypt, 2003This paper assesses trade liberalization strategies for achieving economic prosperity in Tunisia and Egypt.DocumentTrading out of poverty: WTO agreements and the West African agriculture
The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2002The interdependence between domestic, regional and foreign agricultural production and trade policies now plays a central role in the development of the agricultural sector in West Africa, and elsewhere in Africa.This report:studies WTO agreements and their implications for the West African economiesreviews the positions of West African countries on various WTO issuescompares th