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Developing Nations Want to Drop Issues From Trade Talks

Associated Press | By Naomi Koppel | Saturday, August 16, 2003 GENEVA, Aug. 15 -- Officials of a group of developing nations, exhausted by long talks on how best to open up international trade, suggested today that several contentious topics be dropped from the current round of negotiations.

Globalization Fight Continues

The Toronto Star | By Luke Eric Peterson | July 22, 2003 Exactly when is a victory a "victory" in the campaign against unfettered economic globalization? As protesters gather next week in Montreal at a meeting of world trade ministers, they can be forgiven for feeling more than a vague sense of deja vu.

UK Hypocrisy At The WTO Will Hurt Poor Countries

CAFOD and South Centre | June 20, 2003 The Catholic aid agency CAFOD and the South Centre, a Geneva-based think tank for developing countries, say in a new report published today that the British government's policy on investment at the World Trade Organisation risks harming the Third World.

Leaked Confidential Documents Reveal EC`s Neoliberal GATS Agenda

From Corporate European Observer | May, 2002 A series of leaked confidential documents, prepared by the European Commission for the WTO negotiations on liberalisation of trade in services (GATS 2000) are now available on our GATSwatch website.

Monterrey Consensus Must Become Reality, Annan Tells UN-Bretton Woods Meeting

April 22, 2002 The recent consensus on global development adopted at a United Nations conference in Monterrey, Mexico, must be transformed into reality, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today told key finance ministers from across the world meeting with the UN Economic and Social Council in New York.

Fewer Clouds Overhead for IMF, World Bank

Washington Post | April 18, 2002 | By Paul Blustein, Washington Post Staff Writer

New Report Uncovers $7 Billion in Public Assistance for Enron

IPS Press Release | March 22, 2002

UN Takes Swing at Crooks Who Steal Aid for the Poor

New York Times | March 19, 2002 | by Tim Weiner Corruption among governments, politicians and businessmen endangers the world's efforts to ease poverty, according to leaders of a United Nations conference on aid and economic development that opened here today.

Monterrey: A Turning Point

Washington Post | March 19, 2002 | By Vicente Fox

U.N. Summit Protesters Hit Streets

AP Online | By JULIE WATSON | March 19, 2002 Even as world leaders kicked off discussions on how to alleviate poverty - a theme anti-globalization activists have pushed for years - a motley crew of corn farmers, masked students and rebel supporters took to the streets denouncing the gathering as more of the same.