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Briefing paper

Blood on the Floor: How the rich countries have squeezed development out of the WTO Doha negotiations

07/12/2005

2 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Four years on, the Doha Round looks increasingly unlikely to deliver on its promises to the world’s poor. Rich countries have sidelined development concerns and insisted on, among other conditions, the ‘blood on the floor’ rule, i.e. obtaining economically painful concessions from all countries, including poor ones. In agriculture, trade rules look set to remain […]

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Case study

Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Education

05/12/2005

4 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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In the mid-1980s, the Australian government embarked on the first initiative to analyse government budgets from a gender perspective. In 1995, South Africa and the Philippines became the second and third countries to attempt gender-responsive budget exercises. By 2003, there had been similar initiatives in more than sixty countries. This paper uses the gender-response budgeting […]

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Case study

Beyond Access for Girls and Boys: How to achieve good-quality, gender-equitable education

01/12/2005

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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This is the first of nine papers in a series on Education and Gender Equality, which have been developed from the work of the Beyond Access: Gender, Education, and Development, project.1 The focus of the series is on how to ensure not only equal access to a basic education for boys and girls, but that […]

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Case study

Gender Equality and Adult Basic Education

01/12/2005

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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This paper highlights the fact that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) do not directly address the issue of adult basic education and literacy, in spite of these being essential for achieving the Millennium targets. It explores the potential of adult basic education with gender equality to be transformatory for individuals, and for groups working to […]

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Briefing note

EuroMed: Ensuring a fair deal

26/11/2005

4 documents

9 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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When the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (Euro-Med) was announced in Barcelona with a great fanfare in 1995, it was hoped that it would herald a new age in relations between the European Union (EU) and its ten southern Mediterranean partner countries, bringing unprecedented opportunities in the social, economic, and political fields.

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Briefing paper

Make Extortion History: The case for development-friendly WTO accession for the world’s poorest countries

24/10/2005

3 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Until now, the process for dealing with candidates for accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has been one of extorting the maximum number of concessions out of all applicants. As a result, some of the poorest countries in the world now have more onerous WTO obligations than the richest. The 2002 WTO Decision on […]

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Briefing paper

Beyond HIPC: Debt cancellation and the millennium development goals

26/09/2005

3 documents

27 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The G8 has taken a welcome first step by agreeing multilateral debt cancellation for some countries covered by the HIPC initiative; but rich countries need to go much further if all poor countries are to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The ability of poor countries to fight poverty and reach the MDGs should be […]

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Briefing paper

The Fijian Sugar Industry: Investing in sustainable technology

01/09/2005

3 documents

62 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The current EU sugar regime is drawing to a close. Soon ACP sugar exporters such as Fiji will face substantial cuts in the preferential prices they currently receive. For the Fijian sugar industry, this is a worrying prospect. Europe has defined the shape of the Fijian sugar export sector since its inception. The EU now […]

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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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