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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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Overview

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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Overview

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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Briefing paper

Kicking Down the Door: How upcoming WTO talks threaten farmers in poor countries

11/04/2005

4 documents

69 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Overview

Millions of poor farmers in developing countries cannot earn a living because of cheap, often dumped, food imports. The world’s most important basic food, rice, shows the seriousness of the problem. Rich countries have long used the IMF and World Bank, and aggressive bilateral trade deals, to push open the door of poor countries’ markets […]

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Briefing paper

EU Heroes and Villains: Which countries are living up to their promises on aid, trade and debt?

14/02/2005

4 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish

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Overview

2005 is already an extraordinary year. The tsunami in the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004 caused widespread devastation, killed hundreds of thousands of people, left millions homeless, and plunged already poor countries into even deeper poverty. While the disaster has caused great devastation, the global wave of solidarity and public generosity that followed it […]

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Book

Renewing Our Voice: Code of good practice for NGO’s responding to HIV and AIDS

01/12/2004

4 documents

110 pages long

Languages: English, French, Russian, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Over the last twenty years, there has been a considerable increase in the number and range of NGOs involved in responding to the multiple challenges presented by HIV and AIDS: NGOs undertaking HIV and AIDS work; NGOs integrating HIV and AIDS-specific interventions within other health programming; and NGOs mainstreaming HIV and AIDS within development, human […]

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Briefing paper

A Sweeter Future? The potential for EU sugar reform to contribute to poverty reduction in Southern Africa

22/11/2004

2 documents

47 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Overview

Some countries in southern Africa, among the poorest in the world, have long-term potential to build sugar industries that contribute to poverty reduction. Their ability to fulfil this potential depends critically on the outcome of EU sugar reforms, currently under discussion, which will determine their access to the lucrative EU sugar market. Existing EU reform […]

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Briefing paper

A Raw Deal for Rice under DRCAFTA: How the Free Trade Agreement threatens the livelihoods of Central American farmers

01/11/2004

2 documents

57 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Trade policy

Overview

The Free Trade Agreement between the United States and the Central American countries together with the Dominican Republic (DR-CAFTA) threatens the livelihoods of thousands of rice farmers in Central America. It opens the door to massive subsidized US rice exports at prices below the cost of production. If the Agreement is ratified and implemented, a […]

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Briefing paper

The Rural Poverty Trap: Why agricultural trade rules need to change and what UNCTAD XI could do about it

11/06/2004

4 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Overview

Many developing countries are stagnating or growing poorer, including their farmers, who comprise two-thirds of the world’s poor. Many of the reasons for this lie in systems of agricultural trade, including the rules of the WTO, the unfair trade policies of rich countries, and falling prices on international commodity markets. Oxfam recommends policy reforms to […]

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Briefing note

Make Poverty History: The role of the Network of Regional Governments for Sustainable Development (NRG4SD) in meeting the Millennium Development Goals

01/03/2004

4 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish, Welsh

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Overview

In September 2000, 189 UN member states signed the Millennium Development Declaration, pledging to halve global poverty by 2015. To date, many governments have broken their promises by failing to take the action needed to meet the agreed goals. With ten years to go, 2005 must see a step-change in commitments from governments in both […]

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Research report

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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