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    Rising food prices: drivers and implications for development

    Child Rights Information Network, 2008
    Global food prices have risen 83 per cent over the last three years, with significant impacts for the world's poorest people. This briefing paper focuses on what this important change means for international development. It assesses the drivers of rising prices, discusses the implications of higher prices for developing countries, and surveys implications for development policy.
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    Economic report on Africa 2008

    UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2008
    This Economic Report on Africa reviews:  developments in the world economy  recent economic performances and growth prospects in Africa  global development challenges for Africa
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    Aid for trade and public-private partnerships

    United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2007
    This paper explores the need for and rationale behind Aid for Trade (AfT) in the Asian and Pacific region. It looks at the role of the United Nations, in particular that of regional commissions and explores various modalities for AfT by governments, international organisations, business and, in particular, public-private partnerships.
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    Aid for trade at a glance 2007: first global review

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2007
    This report takes stock of trends and developments in aid flows between 2002-2005 that are most closely related to aid for trade. Setting out the Wold Trade Organisation (WTO) monitoring framework, it briefly outlines donor and partner country responses to the survey on their aid for trade strategies, pledges and delivery.
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    Aid for trade: twenty lessons from existing aid schemes

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2007
    Aid for trade (AFT), or trade-related assisistance, falls under the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) currently being negotiated between the European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. This paper takes stock of existing AFT programmes and identifies financing gaps and needs for improvements of delivery mechanisms.
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    Commitment to Development Index 2007

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2007
    Since 2003, the Center for Global Development has published the Commitment to Development Index (CDI), an annual ranking list of 21 donor countries to assess the coherence of their development policies. In particular, the CDI assesses how much rich countries help poor countries build prosperity, good government, and security.
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    The potential impact of the aid for trade initiative

    United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2007
    When the Aid for Trade (AfT) initiative was introduced, it was considered an alternative approach to aid and international trade regimes. In this paper the author argues that these hopes fell apart with the failure of the Doha negotiations, which resulted in AfT having to stand alone.
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    Helping the bottom billion: is there a third way in the development debate?

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2007
    This article reviews Paul Collier’s new book , The Bottom Billion: why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it.
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    Aid for trade and financial assistance to implement the EPAs

    South Centre, 2007
    This fact sheet analyses the trade-related aid pledges made by the European Commission (EC) to the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, the relationship of such pledges with those made under the WTO Aid for Trade initiative, and the suitability and effectiveness of the European Development Fund (EDF) as a mechanism for easing adjustment and implementation costs related to the economic p
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    The world is still waiting: broken G8 promises are costing millions of lives

    Oxfam, 2007
    This report from Oxfam, written in the run up to the 2007 G8 summit, calls on G8 leaders to meet their promises to tackle global poverty, injustice and climate change. Despite some areas of real progress in the past two years, the report argues that overall progress has fallen far short of promises, the cost of which is millions of lives lost due to poverty.

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