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Even if trade rules are radically reformed and a predevelopment round is achieved at the WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong in December 2005, current […] View resource Briefing note Predictable Funding for Humanitarian Emergencies: A challenge to donors 24/10/2005 1 documents 10 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Aid effectiveness Conflict Disasters Overview Every year the lives of millions of people are devastated by natural disasters, conflict and other humanitarian emergencies. 2005 has seen particularly extreme humanitarian emergencies including the tsunami, the Sahel food crisis, and hurricanes Katrina and Stan. Tackling these crises requires a range of actions including immediate humanitarian assistance and long-term development. This short paper […] View resource Briefing note Delivering and Exceeding the MDGs: Why and how countries can take action at the UN Summit 01/09/2005 1 documents 9 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development methods MDGs Millenium Development Goals Overview Delivering and exceeding the MDGS – Why and how countries can take action at the UN Summit – A historic opportunity in 2005. The world’s largest anti-poverty campaign – the Global Call for Action against Poverty (GCAP) – is calling on leaders to make firm commitments at the UN on poverty, peace and security and […] View resource Briefing note Gleneagles: What really happened at the G8 summit? 29/07/2005 1 documents 11 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Debt Debt relief MDGs Millenium Development Goals Overview The G8 summit at Gleneagles in Scotland, from 7-8 July 2005, was a time of high drama, hope, and disappointment. A series of reports published prior to the summit, including the reports of the Commission for Africa and the UN Millennium Project, underlined the fact that without immediate and sustained action by the richest countries, […] View resource Briefing note From Development to Naked Self-Interest: The Doha Development Round has lost its way 27/07/2005 1 documents 7 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Trade policy World Trade Organisation WTO Overview With less than a week to go before a crucial meeting of the WTO General Council, the Doha Development Round negotiations have drifted off course. Instead of promoting the integration of developing countries in the world trading system, the ‘Development Round’ has been turned on its head: the focus has shifted from the development of […] View resource Briefing note A Little Blue Lie: Harmful subsidies need to be reduced, not redefined 21/07/2005 1 documents 8 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Trade policy World Trade Organisation WTO Overview New criteria for ‘Blue Box’ agricultural subsidies under consideration by trade negotiators at the World Trade Organization will create large opportunities for trade-distorting agricultural subsidies. This would fundamentally undermine a key objective of the Doha Development Round negotiations: ‘ we commit ourselves to comprehensive negotiations aimed at substantial reductions in trade-distorting domestic support.’ The Doha […] View resource Briefing note Targeting Poor People: Rebuilding lives after the tsunami 25/06/2005 2 documents 10 pages long Languages: English, French Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Conflict Disasters Reconstruction Overview In the six months since the tsunami hit, the relief and reconstruction effort has delivered real progress for the millions of people affected by the disaster. The relief effort helped to stop the outbreak of diseases such as cholera in affected communities, partly through the effective delivery of clean water and sanitation. A predicted massive […] View resource Briefing note Making the Case for Cash: Humanitarian food aid under scrutiny 08/04/2005 1 documents 5 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Conflict Disasters Food security Overview Following the tsunami that struck coastal regions of South East Asia on 26 December 2004, the World Food Programme announced that two million people, mostly in Sri Lanka and Indonesia, were in need of emergency food aid. Oxfam is publishing this briefing note because it is concerned about challenging the bias towards food aid in […] View resource Briefing note The Tsunami’s Impact on Women 25/03/2005 1 documents 14 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Conflict Disasters Overview There is no scarcity of reflections and commentary on the impact of the disaster that shook the coasts of several Asian countries on 26 December 2004. The media have, at least until recently, looked into almost every conceivable angle: the impact on tourism, the impact on the environment, revealed underwater villages, even the impact on […] View resource Briefing note Who Will be Left to Cheer the End of Illegal US Cotton Subsidies? Why African cotton farmers cannot afford US inaction on cotton subsidies 03/03/2005 1 documents 4 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Trade policy World Trade Organisation WTO Overview Eighteen months ago at Cancun, rich countries promised African cotton farmers that the WTO would solve all the problems being caused by US subsidies. Despite the fine words from US Trade Secretary Robert Zoellick, nothing has changed for African farmers. The US has put ‘cotton’ on the WTO negotiating table – but only to buy […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 … Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 … Page 28 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know