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Education for All Fast Track: The No-Progress Report

11/09/2003

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20 pages long

Languages: English

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The EFA Fast Track Initiative is a ground-breaking compact between rich and poor countries, which aims to close the education financing gap in countries that implement far-reaching reforms. In April 2003, the World Bank’s Development Committee requested a progress report on the FTI in time for their meeting in Dubai. They will not get one, […]

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The IMF and the Millennium Development Goals: Failing to deliver for low income countries

01/09/2003

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35 pages long

Languages: English

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The IMF needs to radically change the way it works in low income countries. It must finally move on from an outdated focus on exclusively short-term macro-stability and pessimism about aid to one based on long-term poverty needs and the MDGs. If it does this it can play a vital, proactive and dynamic role as […]

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Debt and the Millennium Development Goals: A new deal for low-income countries

01/09/2003

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11 pages long

Languages: English

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The global consensus around the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has elevated the development targets to the new ‘gold standard’ of international development cooperation. This paper sets out the policy actions required by the World Bank, IMF, and bilateral donors if their stated commitment to the fulfilment of the MDGs is to be […]

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Response to HM’s Government White Paper on Immigration, Citizenship and Asylum Secure Boarders, Safe Heaven

19/08/2003

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19 pages long

Languages: English

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In this White Paper the Government seriously attempts to address the nature of British society within the context of the realities of a twenty-first century world. This is a world shaped by modern technology, a globalising economy, and post-Cold War politics which are characterised by widening disparities in wealth, and increasing breakdown of security and […]

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Dumping Without Borders: How US agricultural policies are destroying the livelihoods of Mexican corn farmers

01/08/2003

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33 pages long

Languages: English

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The Mexican corn sector is in acute crisis because of the influx of cheap subsidised corn imports from the US. Poor Mexican farmers cannot compete against US producers, who receive $10bn a year in subsidies. Action is required at the WTO Ministerial Conference in Cancun in September 2003 to end agricultural dumping, together with action […]

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Running into the Sand: Why failure at the Cancun trade talks threatens the world’s poorest people

01/08/2003

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44 pages long

Languages: English

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In September 2003 world trade ministers meet in Cancun Mexico to start a new phase in the Doha ‘development round’. The meeting provides an opportunity to reform the unfair trade rules that systematically disadvantage the world’s poorest countries. Urgent action is needed to stop agricultural dumping, protect access to affordable medicines, improve market access, and […]

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Education for All: Fast track or slow trickle

05/06/2003

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21 pages long

Languages: English

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Education financing

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Finance and Development Ministers meet in Washington later this week at a time when the international community seems more divided than ever. The Spring Meetings provide an opportunity to bring the world together behind an unstoppable drive to educate all the world’s children. Currently 115 million children are out of school. Last year the international […]

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People Before Cows: Setting the Standards for Cancun

05/06/2003

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Languages: English

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In the light of poor progress in the Doha trade round and the recent failure of the G8 to break through the negotiation deadlock, the June 2003 Africa Trade Ministers’ meeting in Mauritius is a defining moment for the upcoming Fifth WTO Ministerial Conference in Cancun.

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Targeting Small Arms

05/06/2003

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16 pages long

Languages: English

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One million people have been killed by small arms since the last UN conference on the issue in 2001. While the death toll rises, governments have failed to take concerted action to combat the problem. In pursuit of the ‘war on terror’, some arms producers now supply arms to allies with poor human rights records. […]

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A Fresh Start For Iraq: The case for debt relief

01/05/2003

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28 pages long

Languages: English

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The reconstruction of Iraq is one of the most urgent challenges facing the international community. Over the past two decades the country has been devastated by successive wars and since 1990 sanctions. Ordinary Iraqis have suffered gross violations of human rights, along with one of the most dramatic deteriorations in living standards ever recorded. Now […]

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