News Archive
- The Year in Review 2007
- Released: 1 Jan 2008
- A New President, a Redefined Strategy
- Women in Business Award 2008
- Released: 1 Jan 2008
- Now that the EMPRETEC Women in Business Award 2008 has announced the 10 finalists for this year's competition, a special panel of experts will vote for the top three finalists, who will receive their prizes at a ceremony to be held in Accra (Ghana) during UNCTAD XII on 21 April 2008.
- Gender Equality and Aid Effectiveness Discussion Papers
- Released: 1 Jan 2008
- These discussion papers draw on multi-stakeholder consultations on gender equality and aid effectiveness led by UNIFEM since November 2005. The consultations have brought together representatives from government — planning, finance, and national women’s machineries — donor agencies and civil society to explore strategies to ensure that aid effectively delivers for gender equality in the context of nationally determined development planning and programming processes.
- Farm talks chair circulates eight texts on market access
- Released: 4 Jan 2008
- Chairperson’s working documents November 2007–January 2008
- MEXICO: Is the Freeing Up of Agricultural Trade Really New?
- Released: 4 Jan 2008
- MEXICO CITY, The elimination of all barriers to imported maize under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) will ruin Mexico’s rural areas, according to activists and small farmers who are demanding that the measure be revoked. But the free market which opened on Jan. 1 has in fact been in effect for the past nine years.
- CHALLENGES 2007-2008: Mercosur Limps Slowly Along
- Released: 3 Jan 2008
- RIO DE JANEIRO, Caught up in a tangle of problems that grow old before they are solved and decisions that seem to take forever to be implemented, the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) will be 17 years old in three months’ time, and no one seems to be willing or able to speed up the South American bloc’s integration process, analysts in the member countries told IPS.
- DEVELOPMENT: Political and Economic Dimensions of South-South Cooperation
- Released: 1 Jan 2008
- JOHANNESBURG, Representatives from developing countries frequently hold separate caucus meetings at international conferences and gatherings to discuss ways of improving South-South cooperation. These meetings are held together by the belief that the poorer countries, generally those of the South, receive the short end of the stick in international conventions and trade conditions, according to Francis Kornegay, senior researcher at the Centre for Policy Studies here.
- ECONOMY-CHINA: Seeing Opportunity in US Recession
- Released: 22 Jan 2008
BEIJING - Chinese pundits continue to fret about the gloom and doom scenarios that an imminent United States economic recession might have in store for China’s surging economy, but some are beginning to see a silver lining in it too.
- CHALLENGES 2007-2008: U.S. Election Fever May Delay Doha Talks
- Released: 21 Jan 2008
- GENEVA - A busy negotiating schedule is lined up for this year at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The question remains whether negotiators will have to continue passing the time as the powers-that-be in Washington are consumed by pre-election politics, or if the technical solutions which they have been working on could, in fact, lead to a conclusion of the Doha Development Round.
- TRADE-AFRICA: Doha Round Stuck on Issues of Development (Again)
- Released: 21 Jan 2008
- GENEVA - African negotiators are concerned that their development concerns have been sidelined in the much vaunted Doha Development Round of negotiations at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Whether the round, which has missed previous deadlines, will be concluded this year or not depends on several issues.
