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Resisting corporate India
Focus on the Global South, 2007It is predicted that India will be one of the economic powerhouses of the twenty-first century, with the current government focusing on the corporate sector. This collection of articles argues that progressive forces across India must unite in order to resist the current path of development focused on ‘corporate India.’DocumentWho pays?: how British supermarkets are keeping women workers in poverty
ActionAid International, 2007This report discusses the supply chains that link UK supermarkets to producers in developing countries. The report argues that the structure of the supermarket supply chains has changed in recent years in ways that allow supermarkets to “cherry pick” suppliers from developing economies.DocumentMapping the trends and patterns of the metal and engineering sectors in Africa
National Labour and Economic Development Institute, South Africa, 2006Africa’s metal industry faces a number of developmental challenges, including weak infrastructure, lack of adequate investments, skills shortage, political instability and an inequitable global market. This study explores the performance, trends and patterns of the metal and engineering sectors in Africa within their broader context.DocumentPolicy space for Mexican maize: protecting agro-biodiversity by promoting rural livelihoods
Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 2007This policy analysis examines the room for alternative policies for agricultural provisions in Mexico under existing economic and environmental agreements, including North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).DocumentOperationalising the concept of policy space in the UNCTAD XI mid-term review context
South Centre, 2006This South Centre Analysis provides a brief overview of the concept of policy space for development and suggests ways how, in the context of the UNCTAD XI Mid-Term Review process, UNCTAD can make this concept operational through its policy analysis and recommendations to developing countries.The report argues that the concept of policy space, i.e.DocumentTrade and development: a selective review
Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2005This paper discusses the arguments around the linkages between trade and growth. Despite a large amount of recent studies, there is still no agreement amongst economists about the relationship between the two. Most research indicates that trade stimulates income and growth, although some of this literature is controversial and many studies are criticised for weaknesses in methodology.DocumentTrade justice or free trade?
The Globalization Institute, 2005This document criticises the Trade Justice Movement on the grounds that its definition of trade justice is invalid.DocumentTen Years of the WTO: subordinating development to free trade
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., 2005This paper critically looks back at 10 years of the World Trade Organisation. It argues that the WTO’s impact on the world’s poor has been overwhelmingly negative.DocumentDoes tariff liberalisation increase wage inequality? some empirical evidence
National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2005The aim of this paper is to explores will happen to wage inequality, if tariff rates are reduced. The paper considers two types of wage inequality: between occupations, and between industries.DocumentThe impact of trade liberalisation on employment, capital, and productivity dynamics: evidence from the Uruguayan manufacturing sector
2004This paper studies the impact of trade liberalisation on labour and capital gross flows and productivity in the Uruguayan manufacturing sector. At least initially, Uruguay opened its economy in the presence of strong unions and structurally different industry concentration levels.Pages