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Dec 13th, 2005 - 08:52:43 |
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2 new trade related resources
1. check out One Worlds online magazine which features Fair Trade this month.
*Issue 6, December 2005* - Global trade takes center stage this month as financial leaders will make decisions that impact us all at the Word Trade Organizations highest-level meeting in Hong Kong. The developing world will argue that todays free trade system disadvantages small farmers struggling to survive. In addition to attempts to reform this system, a global pocketbook revolution has been underway for years to make trade fair. Find out how your buying choices can make a difference this holiday season.
http://us.oneworld.net/section/us/perspectives/6/fairtrade
2. Australian WTO Guide
New guide to the WTO processes for Australians ... written from a lay
perspective.
http://www.tradewatchoz.org/guide/New_WTO_Guide.pdf
Nov 14th, 2005 - 17:52:55 |
Cam
Agricultural Market Access: The Key to Doha Success
Kym Anderson and Will Martin, Trade Note, No. 23, June 27, 2005.
Nearly two-thirds of the economic gains from dismantling merchandise trade barriers and farm subsidies would come from agriculture.
This new research finding applies both to the world as a whole and to developing countries as a group.
While much of the focus to date has been on developed country policies, recent modeling work shows that over 50 percent of the gains to developing countries from agricultural reform would come from liberalization by developing countries themselves. The reason is two-fold: because agriculture tariffs are even higher in developing than developed countries (18 compared with 16 percent on average in 2001), and because a large minority of developing country trade is now with other developing countries.
Furthermore, the research finds that 93 percent of the welfare gains from removing distortions to agricultural incentives globally would come from reducing import tariffs, while only 2 percent is due to export subsidies and 5 percent to domestic measures.
For the full text, please visit the website at:
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTRANETTRADE/Resources/Pubs/TradeNote23.pdf
Nov 14th, 2005 - 17:44:29 |
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Global Trade and Financial Architecture Project
The objectives of this project, supported financially by the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID), are to identify and analyze options for making the multilateral trading system more supportive of development, and in particular to follow up on a number of the specific recommendations made in the UN MDG taskforce report (Trade for development).
A number of research papers generated by the project have been posted on the website of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization under the heading Global Trade Reform. Posted papers address preference erosion, the need for and design of additional aid for trade mechanisms and new approaches towards special and differential treatment. The site also includes a summary of the main policy conclusions emerging from the project: ?Strengthening the Global Trade Architecture for Economic Development: An Agenda for Action.?
For more information, please explore the web at
http://www.ycsg.yale.edu/focus/index.html.
Jun 23rd, 2005 - 04:42:24 |
Cam
Subject: Final report: Symposium on Globalization and the Future of Youth in Asia
On 2 and 3 December 2004, the ILO (International Labour Office), the UNU (the United Nations University) and the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) held "Symposium on Globalization and the Future of Youth in Asia" in Tokyo.
The final report can be seen on the following website address:
http://www.mhlw.go.jp/english/topics/globalization/index.html
The country reports include:
1. Bangladesh (PDF:161KB)
2. Brunei (PDF:104KB)
3. Cambodia (PDF:122KB)
4. China (PDF:27KB)
5. Indonesia (PDF:42KB)
6. Japan (PDF:280KB)
7. Korea (PDF:81KB)
8. Malaysia (PDF:79KB)
9. Pakistan (PDF:79KB)
10. Singapore (PDF:37KB)
11. Sri Lanka (PDF:109KB)
12. Thailand (PDF:152KB)
13. Viet Nam (PDF:23KB)
Feb 22nd, 2004 - 06:43:05 |
Cam
FAQ on Globalisation & Development with the World Bank's David Dollar
Making Globalization Work for the Poor was the subject of an online discussion that attracted people from around the world to pose questions
and comments for David Dollar, the Bank's director of development policy and an expert on globalization. The hour-long exchange-- part of the Speak Out series -- raised a wide variety of issues, such as whether globalization forces low-income countries to adopt lower environmental standards in order to compete, how to avoid widening the gap between rich
and poor countries, the effect of globalization on informal economies, and gender inequity.
See http://discuss.worldbank.org/chat/ddollar-globalization.php
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