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Investing in Destruction: Glamis Gold

14/11/2003

3 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish

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Extractives

Overview

A new claim under the investment rules in Chapter 11 of NAFTA has been initiated by Glamis Gold, a Canadian mining company that has demanded $50 million in compensation from the US because of California restrictions on open-pit gold mining. The initiation of the claim reinforces the threats to environmental laws from investment rules, and […]

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Migration and Development: Oxfam GB written submission for the international development committee

01/11/2003

1 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English

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Refugees and IDPs

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Oxfam written submission for the UK Parliament International Development Committee, recommending that UK and EU governments reframe their migration policies to integrate social and economic development in migrants’ home countries with entry and integration in host societies.

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Poverty Reduction or Poverty Exacerbation?

09/04/2003

1 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

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World Bank Group Support for Extractive Industries in Africa

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A Fair Chance: Attaining gender equality in basic education by 2005

02/04/2003

1 documents

72 pages long

Languages: English

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Girls' education

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The main purpose of this report is to inform campaigning and advocacy work in the North and South on girls’ education. The report highlights the progress that has been made in reducing gender gaps in education in the developing world and the size of the challenge that remains. It has been coordinated by three member […]

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Alive and Kicking: Women’s and men’s respones to poverty and globalisation in the UK

19/03/2003

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

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Livelihoods

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This paper explores what it means to be poor in a country generally percieved as wealthy, and how poverty itself is shaped by people’s gender identity and their relationships to a changing labour market. Some of the issues raised will also have a resonance in other contexts where paid employment has in the past been […]

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Access to Antiretroviral Therapy in Uganda: Kampala, June 2002

07/03/2003

1 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English

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This research is an attempt to understand the current situation in Uganda int erms of access to ARVs. It describes what role generic alternatives to branded ARVs have played in reducing prices and increasing access to antiretroviral therapies (ART). In addition, it reviews the laws governing pharmaceutical patients in Uganda, as well as the newly […]

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Digging to Development?

23/09/2002

1 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

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Extractives

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A historical look at mining and economic development. Large scale mining has had serious environmental and social impacts on poor communities around the world. Yet international financial institutions such as the World Bank continue to promote mining in developing countries. They justify this in part on the apparent success rich countries like the US, Canada […]

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Landless and Near Landless Farmers in Two Provinces of Tra Vinh and Dong Thap: Problems and solutions

05/09/2002

1 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

According to many previous survey reports, the problem of landless and near landless farmers in Mekong Delta that were serious in 1998 seemed to be increased but slower in recent years in the surveyed areas. Most of them are very poor. The report by University of Economics (Hanoi) has revealed that ï¾“In 1997, 5.69% of […]

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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

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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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