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  Intellectual and cultural property rights of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Asia

  Minority Rights Group International, 2003

  This report looks at efforts by the UN and governments to protect indigenous and tribal heritage from exploitation; the pressures on governments to allow exploitation of indigenous knowledge; the many initiatives taken by Asian indigenous and tribal peoples to protect their heritage; and the effects of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the Trade-Related Aspects of International
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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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  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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  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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  Improving global economic governance

  South Centre, 2002

  Global economic governance refers to the institutions, norms, practises and decision-making processes from which rules, guidelines, standards, and codes arise in order to manage the global economy.
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  Human rights and democratic development in Africa: policy considerations for Africa's development in the new millennium

  Rights and Democracy, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, 2002

  This paper argues that Nepad fails to adequately define democracy or to examine the relationship between development, peace, democracy and the realisation of human rights.
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  Increasing trade and investment: policies, institutions, and development assistance

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  First in a series of USAID policy briefs which will "explore solutions to the challenges of international development".
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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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