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Journal article

Leaving no-one behind: can the Sustainable Development Goals succeed where the Millennium Development Goals lacked?

04/03/2016

13 pages long

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Leaving no-one behind: can the Sustainable Development Goals succeed where the Millennium Development Goals lacked?

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This article considers what the Leave No-one Behind agenda means, and how it interacts with the gender equality agenda. It starts with a brief assessment of what the Millennium Development Goals have delivered for women and girls by way of comparison. We then go on to look at the Sustainable Development Goal framework, in relation […]

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Research report

Making Growth Inclusive: Some lessons from countries and the literature

26/04/2011

1 documents

43 pages long

Languages: English

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Growth is back on the development agenda, promoted by bilateral and multilateral donors, and the G20, as the most effective way to lift people out of poverty. Economic growth has reduced poverty in developing countries in the past, but by ignoring the issue of equality, donors and poor country governments have failed to maximise the […]

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Briefing note

The Making of a Seoul Development Consensus: The essential development agenda for the G20

11/10/2010

5 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish

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When the G20 meets in Seoul in November 2010, it has a big choice to make. It can either retreat into a narrow focus on its own interests, or it can prove it is capable of genuine global leadership in the face of the interlinked economic, food, and climate change crises. The G20 must adopt […]

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Discussion paper

A Crisis Multiplied: How the global economic crisis, coming on top of other shocks, is worsening poverty in Burkina Faso

24/04/2010

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, French

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This paper documents the impacts of the global economic crisis on Burkina Faso, which exacerbated the effects of the previous food and fuel price crises and was then made worse by subsequent serious flooding. Based on interviews by the author with a number of international donors, government officials, economists, and civil society organizations in Ouagadougou […]

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Briefing note

Blind Spot: The continuing failure of the World Bank and IMF to fully assess the impact of their advice on poor people

01/09/2007

2 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French

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It seems impossible that the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) would give advice to developing countries without fully considering how it might affect the lives of poor people. Yet, despite it being a long-stated policy of both institutions to do so, and some recent progress on the part of the IMF, they are […]

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Briefing note

The View from the Summit: Gleneagles G8 one year on

09/06/2006

4 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English, French, German, Japanese

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On 31 March 2006 the Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa announced that from that day on basic health care would be free to everyone. This was made possible partly due to the money saved following the cancellation of Zambia’s $5 billion debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). A visit to the clinic for basic medicines, […]

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Briefing paper

Truth or Consequences: Why the EU and the USA must reform their subsidies, or pay the price

30/11/2005

1 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English

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The USA and the EU are currently blocking a deal to make trade fair in the Doha Development Round. In the wake of findings by the WTO that US cotton subsidies and EU sugar subsidies are illegal, this paper presents powerful new research detailing a slew of other rich country subsidies of $13bn that are […]

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Briefing paper

Green But Not Clean: Why a comprehensive review of Green Box subsidies is necessary

16/11/2005

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

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Green Box subsidies, by definition of the World Trade Organization (WTO), are not allowed to distort trade. This is why, under the terms of the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA), countries may provide as many Green Box subsidies as they like. ActionAid, CIDSE, and Oxfam believe, as this briefing note will show, that the EU and […]

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Briefing paper

A Round for Free: How rich countries are getting a free ride on agricultural subsidies at the WTO

15/06/2005

4 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Agricultural dumping has a devastating effect on poor countries. The Uruguay Round at the WTO was supposed to cut the subsidies that lead to dumping, but it failed to do so – as did reforms of Europe’s Common Agricultural Policy and US agricultural policy. Now history is set to repeat itself: the Doha Round of […]

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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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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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