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  Learning lessons from the Middle East: towards an ethical foreign policy

  One World Trust, 2006

  This paper is an attempt to connect the armed conflict of the past month in Lebanon and Israel to the question of accountability of governments for their international engagements.The authors argue that while successive Foreign Secretaries and Parliaments have given different weight to the concept of an ethical foreign policy, the recent events reinforce the need to bring the issue back into th
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  Treating diseases of poverty: creating markets for advance drug purchasing

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  While new drugs and vaccines are needed to treat diseases of poverty, not enough is being invested in developing these products because of the lack of a demand or market for them. Advance price or purchase commitments potentially offer a solution, yet a number of structure and design issues first need to be resolved.
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  A Compendium of ILO Multi-bilateral Donors' Policies related to Promoting Gender Equality in the World of Work

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  The International Labour Organisation's (ILO) technical cooperation programmes promote inclusion of gender mainstreaming strategies in all projects and programmes. This document gives an overview of selected ILO donors' main development goals and highlights their gender equality objectives for multilateral development cooperation and bilateral development cooperation at country level.
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  Destroy and profit: wars, disasters and corporations

  Focus on the Global South, 2006

  This publication addresses some of the key issues and challenges that accompany post war and post disaster reconstruction programmes.
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  Song of the sirens: why the US–Andean FTAs undermine sustainable development and regional integration

  Oxfam, 2006

  This brief analyses the US free trade agreements with Peru and Colombia and argues that that the agreements on agriculture, intellectual property, and investment would have serious consequences for small farmers, public health, and regulation of investment in Peru and Colombia.
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  Feeding a hungry world: a vision for food aid in the 21st Century

  Bread for the World, 2006

  This report focuses on the benefits and costs of food aid and sets recommendations for making food aid more efficient and effective.It is an opportune moment to reflect on how food aid programmes, those of the United States in particular, may be strengthened to achieve hunger and poverty reduction more effectively through: U.S.
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  Beyond timber: certifying sustainable forest products

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) provide 80 percent of the world’s population with resources such as medicine, food and shelter. They also generate extra income for poor rural communities. In the mid-1990s certification was introduced for NTFPs: has this contributed to rural livelihoods and forest conservation?
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  We can do better: lessons learned for protecting older persons in disasters

  American Association of Retired Persons International Section, 2006

  This report looks at the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the older population of the Gulf States of America.
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  NAMA state of play: countries negotiation positions

  South Centre, 2006

  This note presents, in a schematic form, the negotiating positions of selected WTO Members or Groups of Members, with particular focus on Non- Agricultural Market Access (NAMA). The Members or Groups of Members selcted are:United StatesEuropean CommissionJapan, NorwayKoreaCanada, N.
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  The monopoly of global capital flows: who needs structural adjustment now?

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006

  This paper argues that U.S. monopolisation of global savings is resulting in global imbalances that are unsustainable and inequitable. Rich countries, such as Japan and Germany, oil exporters, such as Saudi Arabia, middle-income countries, such as China, and even some low-income countries, such as India and Indonesia, export capital to finance yearly U.S.

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