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Survival of the Fittest: Pastoralism and climate change in East Africa

18/08/2008

3 documents

47 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Climate change is having a destructive impact on many groups around the world. Pastoralists in East Africa have been adapting to climate variability for millennia and their adaptability ought to enable them to cope with this growing challenge. This paper explains the policies required to enable sustainable and productive pastoralist communities to cope with the […]

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Rising to the Humanitarian Challenge in Iraq

30/07/2007

4 documents

40 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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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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Getting the Fundamentals Right: The early stages of Afghanistan’s WTO accession process

28/06/2007

5 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English, French, Pashto, Persian, Spanish

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Afghanistan should be in no rush to join the World Trade Organisation. Rapid accession would have few benefits and could undermine efforts to reduce poverty. Careful planning and negotiation is the only way to avoid onerous commitments that have been forced on other very poor countries and to make the best of the potential benefits […]

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Delivering the Agenda: Addressing chronic underdevelopment in Kenya’s arid lands

16/05/2006

3 documents

25 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Due to economic and political marginalisation, the arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) are today the most under-developed areas of Kenya. The pastoral inhabitants of these lands have both the right and the ability to maintain a decent livelihood but have been denied an appropriate and effective development policy for decades. The current drought-related crisis has […]

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Making the Case: A national drought contingency fund for Kenya

16/05/2006

3 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The critical failure in Kenya’s system of drought management is its slow response. A national drought contingency fund should be established to ensure timely, appropriate, and adequate intervention aimed at mitigating the impact of drought-related crises. Recurrent drought may be an inevitable fact of life in Kenya, but the human suffering it causes is not.

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Briefing note

Mind the Gap: Countdown to Viet Nam’s accession to the WTO

01/12/2005

2 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English, Vietnamese

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Viet Nam is entering its final stages of accession negotiations. Although it is unlikely that it will achieve the goal of joining the World Trade Organisation (WTO) by the time of the Hong Kong Ministerial Conference in December, negotiators want a swift end to the process. Analysis of progress made between the two Working Party […]

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Do as I say, not as I do: The unfair terms for Viet Nam’s entry to the WTO

06/04/2005

4 documents

25 pages long

Languages: English, Vietnamese

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In 2005, its tenth year of accession negotiations, Viet Nam hopes to achieve full WTO membership. After 15 years of implementing legal, institutional, and economic reforms, together with the gradual liberalisation of international trade, Viet Nam has achieved macroeconomic stability, solid economic growth, and a halving of the incidence of poverty, from 58 per cent […]

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Extortion at the gate: Will Viet Nam join the WTO on pro-development terms?

01/10/2004

2 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English, Vietnamese

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As Viet Nam negotiates entry to the World Trade Organisation, the world’s most powerful countries are working hard to exact the onerous ‘WTO-plus’ commitments which have become characteristic of accession proceedings. Membership could help Viet Nam to benefit from international trade, supporting its efforts to reduce poverty, but the demands from rich countries for excessive […]

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Briefing note

21st Century Debt Relief

01/01/2001

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam welcomes the IMF and the World Bank’s drive to increase the number of countries receiving debt relief at the end of last year. 22 out of a possible 41 qualifying countries are now receiving debt relief – this is a good start. However, there is still much to be done to ensure that debt […]

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Everything But Arms and Sugar

14/12/2000

1 documents

Languages: English

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Oxfam welcomes the UK Government’s support for the EC’s proposal to improve access to the EU market for all products, except armaments, exported from the world’s 48 poorest countries, dubbed the ‘Everything But Arms’ (EBA) proposal. We dispute the claims of the powerful lobby against the proposal to include sugar, launched by the National Farmers’ […]

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