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A Citizens’ Budget: Regenerating local democracy through community participation in public budgeting

01/07/2002

1 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Participation

Overview

The participatory budget (PB0 pioneered in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre and now adopted in at least 70 cities in Brazil represents a form of participatory democracy and local governance developed in the South from which much can be leardned in cities in the North. Community Pride, together with Oxfam’s UK Poverty Programme, developed […]

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Beyond Philanthropy: The pharmaceutical industry, corporate social responsibility and the developing world

01/07/2002

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Every year, infectious diseases kill 14 million people worldwide. Most of these deaths are of poor people living in developing countries, particularly children under the age of five. Due to poor healthcare systems and poor infrastructure in developing countries, the sick and the dying lack adequate access to the medicines they need. Even though, the […]

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Bilateralism in Intellectual Property

04/12/2001

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

This paper examines the way in which bilateral trade negotiations (Bilateral Investment Treaties and Bilateral Intellectual Property Agreements) are being used by the USA and others to build more extensive protection for intellectual property than that set out in the WTO TRIPS Agreement. It uses examples of recent US/EU negotiations with countries such as Nicaragua, […]

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Asylum: The truth behind the headlines

23/10/2001

1 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English

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Refugees and IDPs

Overview

This report arose from a serious concern about the quality of press coverage on asylum in Scotland, and the degree to which asylum seekers arriving in the country are badly affected by the negative coverage that they receive in the Scottish press. It aims to explore how this adverse treatment in sections of the press […]

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Extractive Sectors and the Poor

01/10/2001

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

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Extractives

Overview

This paper examines how states that rely on oil and mineral exports address the concerns of the poor. Its central finding is that oil and mineral dependence are strongly associated with unusually bad conditions for the poor. To explain this link, it draws on both original econometric analyses, and recent academic studies.

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A Proposed Mine in Tambogrande, Peru: An Alternative Look

15/09/2001

2 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Extractives

Overview

“The findings of this report demonstrate that the proposed Tambo Grande openpit gold mine, if approved, is likely to have negative, long-term impacts on water quality and quantity, the general environment, and possibly agriculture. Further, claims that Manhattan Minerals and the Peruvian government have made regarding the lack of impacts cannot be substantiated by the […]

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Welcome or Over-Reaction?: Refugees and asylum seekers in the Welsh media

14/05/2001

1 documents

61 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

In the 1990s the issue of refugees and asylum seekers has become highly politicised in the UK. Locally, regionally and nationally some politicians have used the issue of refugees claiming asylum in the United Kingdom to gain support for their own political parties. The national media focussed their reporting on the issues in London and […]

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Climate Change: The implications for Oxfam’s programme, policies and advocacy

01/10/2000

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Report on the impacts of climate change and the implications for Oxfam’s programme, policies and advocacy.

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A Critique of the EC’s WTO Sustainability Impact Assessment Study and Recommendations for Phase III

01/03/2000

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

In 1999 the European Commission commissioned the University of Manchester to conduct a Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) of the WTO’s proposed Millennium Round. The study aims to develop a methodology for carrying out SIAs and to use this methodology to make a broad assessment of the potential impacts (positive and negative effects) upon the sustainability […]

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Make Trade Work For The Poor: Position paper on UNCTAD, on the occasion of its Tenth Conference in Bangkok, February 2000

01/02/2000

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7 pages long

Languages: English

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Position paper on UNCTAD, on the occasion of its Tenth Conference in Bangkok, February 2000. There is an urgent need for UNCTAD to take a lead in promoting new approaches to development that favour poorer people and countries – in part because of the failures of today’s international economic managers. Many governmental organisations still do […]

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