Social Development
/Trade and Regional Integration
- Wed Apr 23 2008
Cotonou Declaration (French version, Word file)
Download the 'Cotonou Declaration' of NGOs at UNCTAD XII.
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Social Development
/Trade and Regional Integration
- Wed Apr 23 2008
Civil Society Forum Declaration to UNCTAD XII (Word)
The Civil Society Forum, meeting on the occasion of UNCTAD XII (20-25 April 2008), took place in Accra, Ghana from 17 to 19 April 2008 (Word version).
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Trade and Regional Integration
- Tue Apr 22 2008
UNCTAD XII kicks off, with calls for action on food crisis
UNCTAD XII has kicked off with a opening ceremony on Sunday afternoon and a high-level segment on Monday morning, both of which featured the political leaders of Ghana, Brazil and the Secretary General of the UN.
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Trade and Regional Integration
- Mon Apr 21 2008
Secretary-General Ban warns against impulses towards protectionism
The forces of trade and globalization that have driven a “virtuous cycle” of economic prosperity around the world in the last two decades must be allowed to continue or the current crisis in poor countries over soaring food prices will only worsen, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.
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Trade and Regional Integration
- Mon Apr 21 2008
Trade and investment keys to spurring Africa’s growth, says Ban Ki-moon
Increased trade and investment, particularly in agriculture, are crucial if Africa is to achieve the kind of growth needed to meeting its development targets, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.
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Trade and Regional Integration
- Mon Apr 21 2008
The People's Summit New Orleans
Official website of the civil society movements protesting the gathering of presidents of US, Canada and Mexico in New Orleans.
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Trade and Regional Integration
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Many divergences still in latest UNCTAD-XII draft text
This article provides an overview of the main areas of divergence between basically the G-77 and China (representing developing countries) and developed countries (including the EU and the US) in relation to specific paragraphs of the UNCTAD XII draft text of 9 April 2008.
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Trade and Regional Integration
- Mon Mar 24 2008
Development: the emergence of the South
The UNCTAD Trade and Development Board held a special session at which the Secretary-General told delegates that next month's UNCTAD-XII conference comes "at a time when the world is in a period of uncertainty, with credible fears of recession."
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Trade and Regional Integration
- Fri Mar 14 2008
One last spurt for the WTO's Doha talks
The WTO is making one final push to conclude its Doha Round, whose main ‘modalities’ must be concluded in the next few weeks. But it is difficult to get a good deal done in time. By Martin Khor.
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Trade and Regional Integration
- Mon Mar 03 2008
African Civil society groups urge a stop to EPAs
A group of over fifty civil society and social movements from Africa have called for a stop to the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between Europe and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.
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