Development

SADC Summit Expected to Give Green Light for Free-Trade Area

Agence France Presse WINDHOEK, July 31 (AFP) - Presidents of the 14-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) are expected to give the go-ahead for a regional free trade area during a summit in the Namibian capital on August 6 and 7, the group's acting executive secretary said Monday.

Program Aimed at Jump-Starting Global School Lunch Program

Feedstuffs / By SALLY SCHUFF, Feedstuffs Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Two of America's senior statesmen -- former U.S. Sen. George McGovern and Bob Dole -- last week laid out a vision for a global nutrition program that could help boost U.S. food exports while targeting food aid to school children in the world's neediest countries.

Anti-Globalisation Activists Demand New WTO Agreements; Advise WTO to Save Patients, Not Patents

THE NEWS INTERNATIONAL / Shahina Maqbool ISLAMABAD: Anti-globalisation activists on Saturday organised a demonstration against the "secret" visit of the Director General World Trade Organization (WTO) Mike Moore to Pakistan and called for a review of the international trade agreements in accordance with the needs of the developing countries.

Global Labour Standards Pledge

By Edward Alden in Washington With the prospects for future trade negotiations still clouded by the Seattle protests, governments and multinational businesses are launching a series of initiatives to try to counter the charge that trade liberalisation has threatened environmental and labour standards.

Impact of WTO on LDCs and Net Food-Importing Countries

UNCTAD is organizing an Expert Meeting on the Impact of the Reform Process in Agriculture on LDCs and Net Food-Importing Countries, and Ways to Address their Concerns in Multilateral Trade Negotiations, Geneva, 24 - 26 July 2000. The web site includes the background documents and other information.

Developing Nations Dismayed in WTO Talks over Implementation Problems with Accords

GENEVA--Tensions have emerged in talks at the World Trade Organization on how to address the implementation concerns of developing country members, as delegates from several nations accuse their developed country counterparts of showing little willingness to tackle the issue.

A Few Advances Toward Applying Anti-Poverty Plans

By Gustavo Capdevila / IPS GENEVA, Jun 30 (IPS) - A week of negotiations by the special session of the United Nations general assembly on the question of fighting poverty led to a few significant results, like the idea of studying new formulas for financing development or for freezing the foreign debt at current levels.

Nations Try to Develop Poverty Plan

Associated Press / Naomi Koppel GENEVA (AP) -- Rich and poor nations, replowing the same territory they did at last year's, riot-torn Seattle trade conference, tried Tuesday to hammer out a United Nations plan to tackle global poverty.

OECD Ministers ""Determined"" to Launch New Trade Round

Agence France Presse / Sue Kendall PARIS, June 27 (AFP) - Ministers of 29 major industrial countries said here Tuesday they are "determined" to work for the launch "as soon as possible" of a new round of global trade talks that fully include the world's poorest nations.

Sachs on Globalization: A new map of the world

Today's world is divided not by ideology but by technology. This demands, Jeffrey Sachs argues here, bold new thinking on development The Economist June 24th 2000