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Dumping on the World: How EU sugar policies hurt poor countries

01/03/2004

2 documents

62 pages long

Languages: English, French

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European Union (EU) sugar policies hamper global efforts to reduce poverty. Export subsidies are used to dump 5 million tonnes of surplus sugar annually on world markets, destroying opportunities for exporters in developing countries. Meanwhile, producers in Africa have limited access to EU markets. The winners from the CAP sugar regime are big farmers and […]

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The Cost of Childbirth: How women are paying the price for broken promises on aid

01/03/2004

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

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One women dies every minute as a result of problems in pregnancy or childbirth. The vast majority of these deaths are avoidable. Yet on current trends the international target of reducing maternal deaths by three-quarters by 2015 will be missed. Northern governments could transform the prospects of reaching the target by increasing the aid that […]

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Spotlight on Subsidies: Cereal injustice under the CAP in Britain

01/01/2004

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

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Agriculture

Overview

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) lavishes subsidies on some of Britain’s wealthiest farmers and landlords. Losers include small farmers, consumers, taxpayers, and the environment in the UK – and millions of people in developing countries. Current reform plans do not go far enough. The ‘new’ CAP will still overwhelmingly benefit a wealthy minority in Britain, […]

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Running into the Sand: Why failure at the Cancun trade talks threatens the world’s poorest people

01/08/2003

1 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

In September 2003 world trade ministers meet in Cancun Mexico to start a new phase in the Doha ‘development round’. The meeting provides an opportunity to reform the unfair trade rules that systematically disadvantage the world’s poorest countries. Urgent action is needed to stop agricultural dumping, protect access to affordable medicines, improve market access, and […]

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Cultivating Poverty: The impact of US cotton subsidies on Africa

05/09/2002

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

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Agriculture

Overview

American cotton subsidies are destroying livelihoods in Africa and other developing regions. By encouraging over-production and export dumping, these subsidies are driving down world prices – now at their lowest levels since the Great Depression. While America’s cotton barons get rich on government transfers, African farmers suffer the consequences.

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Debt Relief and the HIV/AIDS Crisis in Africa: Does the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative go far enough?

06/06/2002

1 documents

29 pages long

Languages: English

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HIV/AIDS poses a development challenge of unprecedented urgency, especially in Africa. Apart from the terrible personal costs, the pandemic is the single biggest threat to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals. Over one-third of HIV/AIDS sufferers live in countries classified as heavily indebted. Repayments to creditors by these countries are diverting resources needed to […]

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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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Last Chance in Monterrey: Meeting the challenge of Poverty Reduction

01/03/2002

1 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

On present trends, all the Millennium Development Goals will be missed by a wide margin. As a result, there will be 56 million additional child deaths and 75 million children out of primary school by 2015. But trend is not destiny. An extra $100bn a year in aid would be enough to realise the MDGs […]

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Education Charges: A tax on human development

01/10/2001

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Education financing

Overview

New research illustrates how education charges trap children in a cycle of illiteracy and poverty. Governments and international organizations must act immediately on their commitments to deliver free basic education for all.

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Eight Broken Promises: Why the WTO isn’t working for the worlds poor

01/10/2001

2 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Overview

Hypocrisy and double standards characterise the behaviour of industrialised countries towards poorer countries in world trade. This briefing paper identifies eight broken promises made by the rich to the poor. At the forthcoming World Trade Organisation summit in Doha, the biggest global meeting on trade since Seattle, WTO members must end the cycle of broken […]

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