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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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  Agriculture negotiations: the issues, and where we are now

  World Trade Organization, 2002

  A "backgrounder" on agriculture negotiations at the WTO updated to cover the end of phase 2 of the ongoing negotiations and future tasks under the Doha mandate.The report gives details of proposals recieved during phases 1 and 2 and the various country groupings and alliances formed during this process. It also contains an issue based analysis of progress made and future objectives.
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  MAI : documentation from the negotiations

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1998

  Database contains a large quantity of declassified documents relating to the negotiations on a proposed Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) between 1995 and 1998.
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  International conservation treaties, poverty and development: the case of CITES

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2002

  Looks at how CITES measures have evolved over time and the growing interest in the use of restricted trade measures as a conservation tool. The report critically examines the effectiveness of CITES measures and looks at the extent to which parties to the convention link development and conservation.In this broad context the authors pick out a number of emerging issues for particular attention.
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  The wrong model: GATS, trade liberalisation and children’s right to health

  Save the Children Fund, 2001

  This report examines the global policy context behind the child health crisis. In particular, it looks at the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and the World Trade Organisation’s drive to increase international trade in services such as water and health care.
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  External aid inflows and the real exchange rate in Ghana

  African Economic Research Consortium, 2001

  This paper develops an empirical model for Ghana's real exchange rate with special focus on foreign aid.The paper finds the following: Rather than using aid for current consumption it is vital for it to be used in infrastructural development or invested so as to lay the foundation for higher growth in the economy, thus paving the way for curtailment of aid dependence in the future.
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  WTO ministerial declaration on the TRIPs agreement and public health: the issues at stake

  European Commission, Directorate General for Trade, 2001

  Note which sets out the Trade Directorate General's (DG III) position on the agreement on TRIPS and access to essential medecines agreed at the Doha WTO MinisterialThe paper is set out in a question and answer format which addressed the following:What is the major value of this Declaration?Why was it necessary to clarify the relationship between TRIPs and public health?What cla
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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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  Accord Bangui (Bangui Agreement)

  Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, MSF, 1999

  Full text of the original 1977 Bangui Agreement which established the African Organization for Intellectual Property (OAPI) and the 1999 revisions which brought the agreement in line with TRIPS.(In French)

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