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The Andes: A quest for justice

01/01/1992

1 documents

113 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Cholera epidemics, mass unemployment, drug trafficking, and conflict: these are the signs of Andean societies in crisis. Whole communities are now on the margins of survival in Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Daunting levels of poverty have been created by harsh new economic policies, which compound the legacy of colonial exploitation, military dictatorship, unfair […]

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Book

The Trade Trap

01/01/1992

5 documents

256 pages long

Languages: English

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This best-selling book explains how countries that depend on the export of primary commodities, like coffee or cotton, are caught in a trap: the more they produce, the lower the price falls on the international market. If they try to add value to their commodities by processing them, they run into tariff barriers imposed by […]

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Book

Vietnam: The price of peace

01/01/1992

9 documents

73 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Things are changing in Vietnam. Once a symbol of rigid Communism, the Government now encourages people to start up small businesses, and has opened the door to foreign companies. But a US ban on trade and aid has severely hampered efforts to rebuild after long years of war – and Vietnam remains one of the […]

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The role of marketing in income generation: Two case studies

01/11/1991

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

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The author describes two income-generation weaving projects, in Thailand and in Indonesia, both of which have had involvement with Oxfam Trading. She attributes the success of the former to sound marketing, confirming demand for reasonably priced quality products. The Indonesian project has failed primarily due to a lack of investigation of potential commercial markets. This […]

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Book

Free Front Line Africa

01/01/1991

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Debt

Overview

Oxfam has been working with people in southern Africa since the early 1960s – providing support for their efforts to improve the quality of their lives. During the last decade their efforts have been undermined by a growing debt crisis, falling prices for their exports, the lack of effective international aid, and, in many cases, […]

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Brazil: A mask called progress

01/01/1991

1 documents

130 pages long

Languages: English

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Based on Oxfam’s 20 years of development experience in Brazil, A Mask Called Progress examines the conflicts that have brought many traditional communities to the edge of extinction, and threaten to destroy one of the richest natural environments on earth. In their own words, the people of the Brazilian rainforest – rubber-tappers and indigenous people […]

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Book

Common Ground: How changes in the common agricultural policy affect the third world poor

01/01/1987

1 documents

101 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The picture of mounting European food surpluses set against the constant spectre of Third World food shortages is a familiar one. But the cost of these surpluses and their effect on world trade is leading to increasing pressure for change in the European Community’s agricultural policies.

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Book

The Hunger Crop: Poverty and the sugar industry

01/01/1987

1 documents

122 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Sugar, tea coffee and palm oil are the backbone of many Third World economies. But the processing and marketing of these commodities is controlled by the rich industrialised nations. This unequal exchange leaves Third World producers highly vulnerable to market conditions – and it is poor people who are hardest hit.

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Book

Muck and Brass

01/01/1980

1 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

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While the people of the Third World struggle against a chronic scarcity of resources, the rubbish thrown away by British householders each year amounts to a pile sixty times the size of the Great Pyramid. This report proposes a domestic reclamation strategy for the UK which will create jobs, save imports and make better use […]

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