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Rigged rules and double standards: trade, globalisation and the fight against poverty
Oxfam, 2002This report constitutes Oxfams analysis of the links between trade rules and poverty and as such forms the basis of their 'make trade fair' campaign.DocumentWhat's wrong with the Oxfam trade campaign
Focus on the Global South, 2002This short article is critical of the pro-trade, pro-globalisation agenda of Oxfams new trade campaign.DocumentControlling the international trade in illegally logged timber and wood products
Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2002This report examines how importing/consuming governments might establish and operate a system for denying market access to timber and wood products produced and exported illegally. It covers processes and procedures for identifying illegal timber, methods for denying markey access to those products, effective forms of international co-operation and the implications for WTO trade rules.DocumentIs globalisation good for Africa?
School of Economics and Commercial Law, Göteborg University, Sweden, 2002Globalisation or market integration in Sub-Saharan Africa is closely linked to the structural adjustment programmes.DocumentModelling the effects of trade on women: the case of Zambia
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002The effects of trade on women varies depending on their educational level, their family circumstances and their tasks within households. What is the gender impact of promotion of non-traditional agricultural exports in Zambia? And that of tariff reduction?DocumentThe struggle to develop regional industry policy: the role of the plastics and auto sectors in the Regional Chamber of ABC, São Paulo
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002Focuses on the importance of local or regional policy networks. The question, asking whether conducting local or regional industrial policy is possible where local enterprises are part of a global production system.The ABC region of São Paulo provides a good opportunity for testing this proposition.DocumentRethinking international intellectual property
Center for Advanced Research and Study on Intellectual Property, 2001Proceedings of the 2000 High Technology Summit Conference at the University of Washington, Seattle.This CASRIP sypmosium publication gives access to a range of articles and presentations on each of the following issues:Extraterritorial enforcementThe doctrine of equivalents and prosecution history estoppelThe WTO and IPRs: Biodiversty and developing countriesRethinking theDocumentThe unremarkable record of liberalized trade
Economic Policy Institute, USA, 2001The paper presents evidence suggesting that reductions in poverty and income inequality remain elusive in most parts of the world despite trade liberalisation and infact greater integration of deregulated trade and capital flows over the last two decades has likely undermined efforts to raise living standards for the world’s poor.The paper argues that:unregulated capital and trade flowsDocumentThe New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD): A Commentary
Pambazuka, 2002Report which welcomes the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and particularly the engagement of the G8 countries as an important political moment but expresses a number of concerns.These can be summarised as follows:NEPAD is a starting point for discussion in Africa, but did not result from appropriate participatory strategies.DocumentPolitics and parallel negotiations: environment and trade in the Western Hemisphere
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2002This paper makes the case for parallel negotiations during the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement (FTAA) negotiations “that harnesses improved environmental protection to the engines of economic expansion.” In order to refocus what has been a troubled process, Audley and Sherwin argue for an innovative, proactive environmental approach that meets the environmental concerns of developed and dePages
