Reuters | By Lesley Wroughton | March 13, 2004
WASHINGTON - The United States is the World Bank (news - web sites)'s biggest shareholder, and bank president James Wolfensohn wants Americans to know where their dollars are going.
Africa News | By Angola Press Agency | March 11, 2004
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is holding a meeting since Monday in Lisbon, Portugal, to disccuss Sustainable Tourism As A Factor Of Development.
IPS | March 3, 2004 Mexico City, 3 Mar (IPS/Diego Cevallos) -- The United Nations Environment Programme warned Wednesday in Mexico that transgenic crops could pose a threat to biodiversity and human health, and recommended that the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean act with caution in using genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
New Straits Times (Malaysia) | March 7, 2004
NUMEROUS companies world-wide have jumped onto the corporate environmental reporting (CER) bandwagon. Although the growing numbers of reporters are encouraging, the overall standard of reporting leaves plenty to be desired.
The Main Wire | March 5, 2004
A report released Friday by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development found that foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to Brazil, Mexico and Columbia dipped in 2002 from 2001.
The agency said FDI flows to Brazil declined from $22.5 billion in 2001 to $16.6 billion in 2002, or by more than 26%.
Africa News | March 1, 2004
The role of government in developing sound economic structures has been underscored with calls for greater involvement as a means of ensuring full benefit of investment flows.
New York Times | By TERENCE NEILAN | February 26, 2004 British spies have regularly bugged the office of Secretary General Kofi Annan of the United Nations, including during the period leading to the invasion of Iraq, a former British government minister said today.
BusinessWorld | By Benjamin G. Defensor | February 23, 2004
One of the favorite lines of the anti-globalization sector is that multinationals have become so big and powerful that a) they are even bigger than some states and b) they have amassed enough political power to dictate policy to some small nations.
