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Agricultural Trade and the Livelihoods of Small Farmers

09/06/2000

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper focuses on the longterm strategies and policies that will enable poor farmers in developing countries to benefit from international trade, thereby contributing to rural poverty reduction and the achievement of the international development targets. The term ‘farmer’ is used as shorthand for both sedentary producers and pastoralists. The term ‘smallscale agriculture’ embraces both […]

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Journal article

Partnerships in fair trade: reflections from a case study of Cafe direct

01/05/2000

12 pages long

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In the 1990s, fair trade, as practised by alternative trading organisations (ATOs), has evolved from a solidarity to a partnership model. This paper explores the nature of fair trade partnership using a case study of Cafedirect and one of its suppliers, the KNCU in Tanzania. For ATOs, fair trade is articulated in terms of a […]

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Research report

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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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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Research report

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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Journal article

Export processing zones: a Caribbean development dilemma

01/11/1999

5 pages long

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The author describes incentives used by governments to attract foreign investment and create export processing zones (EPZs), also known as special economic or free trade zones. The low cost of labour, mostly provided by women, is one of these incentives. Making special reference to Jamaica, Belize, and Barbados, the author discusses the impact of EPZs […]

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Journal article

Endangering women’s health for profit: health and safety in Mexico’s maquiladoras

01/11/1999

6 pages long

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Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was agreed, thousands of maquiladoras (assembly plants) have sprung up along the Mexican side of the Mexico/US border. Around a million workers are subject to violations of their human, labour, and health rights, the author argues, and this is a by-product of `free trade’. Abell advocates worker […]

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Journal article

Globalisation and women in India

01/11/1999

6 pages long

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Describing the way globalisation has affected India over the last decade, the author considers the impact of these changes on women, in the main areas of `development’ due to globalisation: commercialisation, capitalisation, foreign trade orientation, and financialisation and industrial restructuring. She develops the point that the `skewed income and wealth’ structure in India, and the […]

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Journal article

Developing countries in the WTO: support or resist the ‘millennium’ round?

01/11/1999

4 pages long

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A fundamental question to be decided at the November/December 1999 World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial meeting is whether to support or resist a new round of trade negotiations. The author argues that while many developing countries, and development NGOs, are right to feel that the earlier Uruguay round produced results skewed in favour of developed […]

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Journal article

Economic crisis helps to ‘demarginalize’ women

01/05/1998

6 pages long

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Coffee production was the main source of family income in the North West Province of Cameroon until there was a fall in coffee prices. The author recounts a positive side effect of this potential economic crisis for the province: the empowerment of women. Previously denied land-ownership, due to men’s traditional hold on land and women’s […]

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Discussion paper

The International Dimensions of Work: Some implications for the UK

01/01/1998

1 documents

70 pages long

Languages: English

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Globalisation, or the expansion of international trade and investment experienced since the early 1980s, has brought gains to some countries and groups of workers, while marginalising and excluding others. This paper argues that some of the causes of and the solutions to the UK’s recent employment problems lie at the international level. Such problems as […]

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