Development

Plan to Open EU Markets to ""Everything but Arms"" from Poorest Countries

This is a communication from the Trade Directorate-General of the European Commission The European Commission has proposed opening its markets to all goods except arms from the world's poorest countries. Its proposal to the Council of Ministers would grant duty-free, quota-free access for products from the 48 Least Developed Countries.

FAO""s Annual Report on the State of Food and Agriculture: Despite Tangible Progress, 13 Percent of Humanity Still Suffers from Hunger and Related Diseases

Paris, 15 September 2000 - More than 800 million people still lack access to the food they need, much less than the 960 million estimated 30 years ago, but still a massive number accounting for 13 percent of the world's population, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says in its annual report "The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA-2000)," released today at a news conference at the

An International Investment Regime? Issues of Sustainability

The International Institute for Sustainable Development has released a new book by Senior Fellow Konrad von Moltke: "An International Investment Regime? Issues of Sustainability."

Address by Fidel Castro to the Millennium Summit

REPUBLICA DE CUBA MISION PERMANENTE ANTE LAS NACIONES UNIDAS ADDRESS BY DR. FIDEL CASTRO RUZ, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA TO THE MILLENNIUM SUMMIT New York, September 6, 2000 Excellencies:

Protestors, Cops Clash at Summit

Associated Press / Mike Corder MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- Anti-globalization protesters battled police and formed a human barricade around the site of an international economic forum on Monday, delaying its start.

Human Reality Hidden in New Free Trade Deal

By AZIZ CHOUDRY* | September 6, 2000 The Singapore and New Zealand Governments are selling their new free trade and investment agreement as an abstraction, unlinked to people's lives. On Batam, an Indonesian territory 40 minutes from Singapore by boat, I saw the human realities that lie behind the deal.

Wake Up to Trade Reality: Moore

Staff Reporter Patric Lane Opponents of free trade need to wake up and take a reality check, according to World Trade Organisation boss Mike Moore. Mr Moore, a former New Zealand Prime Minister, is in New Zealand on an official visit to update the Government and other political leaders on progress in Geneva.

Taming Globalization

Washington Post / Editorial

UN Meeting on Development Financing Opens in Jakarta

UN Newservice 2 August -- Amid renewed financial anxiety throughout Asia, the President of Indonesia today told a high-level United Nations finance meeting that securing a common identity for Asians was the key to solving the continent's development problems.

A Human Face for Globalization

DAWN (Pakistan), Opinion, By Sabur Ghayur