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Preparations for the International Conference on Financing for Development.
An information note prepared by the Financing for Development (FfD) Secretariat. The note contains very useful and timely information on how to get involved in the FfD process.
Future historians will certainly marvel at how trade, originally a means to obtain what could not be produced locally, became an end in itself. In our age it has become a measure of economic and social progress more important even than the well-being of the people who produce or consume the traded goods.
If the development needs and objectives of the South are to be given the attention they merit, there will need to be a major change both in the approach to and the institutional framework for financing development.
This study argues that trade policies regarding financial services are an important - but often neglected - determinant of capital flows and financial sector stability. Staff Working Paper, November 1998.
This paper analyses the results of the financial services negotiations under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) at the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Economic and Political Weekly, January 15, 2000.
The recent crisis in Asia has focused economists' interests on capital flows and their determinants. This paper examines three possible economic fundamentals that are likely to have contributed to the capital flow reversals.
The present report addresses the thematic cluster of financing and trade for sustainable development and reviews the progress achieved in the implementation of the objectives for trade, as set out in chapter 2 of Agenda 21, and for finance, as set out in chapter 33 of Agenda 21.
The purpose of the workshop was to discuss the implications for developing countries of the 1999 review of TRIPs Article 27.3(b).
The purpose of the workshop was to discuss the implications for developing countries of the 1999 review of TRIPs Article 27.3(b).
The second World Social Forum in Porto Alegre is no longer simply an 'alternative' to Davos's illustrious jamboree - it is a phenomenon in its own right, a key channel for making the arguments and longings of global protest and radical movements into a coherent force for a different social order.
The latest policy product of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) - is unlikely to make a dent on either poverty or on the institutions as they are proving to be little more than hurriedly worked-over versions of standard World Bank-IMF policy papers.
Property rights are assured by the collective standing behind one's claim to the benefits stream generated by property. Changing technology and institutions have interacted throughout history to create property rights from what had previously been public goods.