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Briefing paper

EU Association Agreements with Latin America: Good news for those in poverty?

01/05/1999

2 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English, Portuguese

Keywords

Trade policy

Overview

This Briefing focuses on the economic dimension of the Association Agreements under discussion between the European Union and Mercosur, Chile and Mexico. These accords will create free trade areas and cover related matters such as intellectual property rights, government procurement, trade in services and capital movements. After examining trade relations between Europe and Latin America […]

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Briefing note

Oxfam International Submission to the Heavily Indebted Poor County (HIPC) Debt Review

01/04/1999

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Three years after its inception, the Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) initiative has failed to resolve the debt crisis in the world’s poorest countries. Early promise has given way to disappointment. Without a concerted international effort to provide earlier and deeper debt relief, and to integrate debt reduction into wider poverty reduction initiatives, the HIPC […]

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Briefing paper

Debt Relief for Rwanda: An opportunity for peacebuilding and reconstruction

01/03/1999

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Rwanda stands at a critical point in its history. The country’s people are seeking to rebuild a society shattered by war and a genocide in which one in eight Rwandans – Tutsi and Hutu opponents of the government’s extremist policies – was killed, and which further led to the outflow of over one and a […]

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Briefing paper

Palestinian Refugees and Unrwa

01/02/1999

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam GB has been working with Palestinian refugees for fifty years, supporting initiatives in health, education and livelihoods. It currently supports projects which involve refugees in Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories, in the fields of vocational training, early childhood development, and gender. Within the framework of its programme and advocacy interests in the Middle East, […]

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Briefing paper

Central America after Hurricane Mitch: Will the donors deliver?

03/12/1998

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

During the week of December 7, the international community will hold two meetings of vital importance to the future of Central America. The Paris Club of creditor nations will hold their regular monthly meeting in Paris on December 9; on their agenda will be discussions on debt relief for Central America. The leaders of Nicaragua, […]

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Briefing paper

East Asian ‘Recovery’ Leaves the Poor Sinking

01/10/1998

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The economic crisis in East Asia shows no sign of abating. Far from resolving the region’s problems, IMF ‘rescue’ measures have exacerbated their severity, contributing to an economic collapse which parallels in scale the Great Depression of 1929. Real wages have collapsed, remittances to poor rural areas have fallen, and access to basic services is […]

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Briefing paper

Debt Relief for Tanzania: An opportunity for a better future

01/04/1998

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Tanzania is one of the world’s poorest countries. Around half of the population lives below the poverty line, one in six children die before the age of five, and almost one-third of the population will not live until the age of forty. These human welfare indicators are the culmination of almost two decades of slow […]

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Central America after Hurricane Mitch: Will the donors deliver?

East Asian ‘Recovery’ Leaves the Poor Sinking

Debt Relief for Tanzania: An opportunity for a better future