Bailey, Michael Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Briefing paper

From Relief to Recovery: Supporting good governance in post-earthquake Haiti

06/01/2011

5 documents

25 pages long

Languages: Dutch, English, French, Haitian Creole, Spanish

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Overview

The humanitarian response undertaken in Haiti after the earthquake that struck on 12 January 2010 has been one of the most complex ever. However, as the first anniversary of the quake approaches, the Haitian state, together with the international community, is making little progress in reconstruction. The Haitian authorities need to show greater strategic leadership […]

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Briefing paper

A Billion Hungry People: Governments and aid agencies must rise to the challenge

26/01/2009

3 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

High food prices have brought into sharp focus an existing global food crisis that affects almost one billion people. Lasting solutions to the problem include adequate investment in agriculture, fairer trade, the redistribution of resources, and action on climate change. But hungry people cannot be fed on the hope of long-term solutions. Governments, supported by […]

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Briefing paper

Rising to the Humanitarian Challenge in Iraq

30/07/2007

4 documents

40 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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Overview

Armed violence is the greatest threat facing Iraqis, but the population is also experiencing another kind of crisis of an alarming scale and severity. Eight million people are in urgent need of emergency aid; that figure includes over two million who are displaced within the country, and more than two million refugees. Many more are […]

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Briefing paper

Making Trade Work for Development in 2006: What the EU should do

05/05/2005

2 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Overview

If real progress is to be made in 2005 on reducing poverty through trade, the EU must look towards its longer-term enlightened interests and rein in its search for short-term commercial advantage. To contribute to global prosperity and security, including Europe’s, it should start actively backing developing countries’ concerns at the G8, the WTO, and […]

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Issue briefing

Oxfam Background Briefing on South-South Trade and GSTP

01/06/2004

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Trade policy

Overview

Increasing trade and investment between developing countries by reducing trade barriers could bring real benefits in terms of employment and incomes. It can also promote improved political relationships between countries, such as India and China, and enables countries to reduce their dependence on markets in the industrialised countries. Since two thirds of South-South trade is […]

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Briefing paper

Europe’s Double Standards: How the EU should reform its trade policies with the developing world

01/04/2002

1 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

EU double standards on trade policy are a disgrace. The EU forces Third World countries to open their markets at breakneck speed, while maintaining barriers to Third World exports, particularly farm products and textiles. The EU does further damage to livelihoods in the developing world by dumping highly-subsidised agricultural surpluses with which small farmers cannot […]

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Briefing paper

TRIPS and Public Health: The next battle

01/03/2002

1 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health agreed at the WTO Ministerial in Doha in November 2001 was an important step forward in the campaign for affordable medicines. It affirmed the primacy of public health over intellectual property rights, and the rights of governments to make full use of the public health safeguards in TRIPS. […]

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Briefing paper

Is the WTO Serious About Reducing World Poverty? The Development Agenda for Doha

01/10/2001

2 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Overview

This briefing outlines the issues which the WTO should address if it is to make an effective contribution to poverty reduction in developing countries. The paper, prepared in advance of the Ministerial Conference in Doha, argues that 1) Uruguay Round outcomes were unfair to poor countries, 2) Ministers should therefore commit the WTO to rebalance […]

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Briefing paper

Priced Out of Reach: How WTO patent policies will reduce access to medicines in the developing world

01/10/2001

1 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The forthcoming WTO summit offers an unparalleled opportunity to change global patent rules, known as the TRIPS agreement, so that vital medicines are not priced out of reach of people living in poverty. Unfortunately, the US government is opposing the developing-country call for TRIPS to be clarified and interpreted in favour of public health. Oxfam […]

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Briefing note

Agricultural Trade and the Livelihoods of Small Farmers

09/06/2000

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

This paper focuses on the longterm strategies and policies that will enable poor farmers in developing countries to benefit from international trade, thereby contributing to rural poverty reduction and the achievement of the international development targets. The term ‘farmer’ is used as shorthand for both sedentary producers and pastoralists. The term ‘smallscale agriculture’ embraces both […]

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