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News Archive


Feminization of Poverty
Released: 4 Jul 2008
What Do We Mean by “Feminization of Poverty”? A One Pager by International Poverty Centre
New report unveils strategies for engaging the poor
Released: 1 Jul 2008
New York — Creating Value for All: Strategies for Doing Business with the Poor, a new and groundbreaking report released today by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) offers strategies and tools for companies to expand beyond traditional business practices and bring in the world’s poor as partners in growth and wealth creation.
UK Government aid contributes to dramatic decline in women dying in childbirth in Bangladesh and Nepal
Released: 1 Jul 2008
A new report from DFID shows that UK Government investments in improving maternal health in the world’s poorest countries have paid off.
G8 Leaders told to keep their aid promises to the world’s poorest countries
Released: 7 Jul 2008
TOYAKO, Japan - Japan received kudos Monday from the leaders of seven African states as they met with their counterparts from the group of eight (G8) major industrialised nations in Toyako on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. But others raised doubts over the extent of commitment to Africa by Japan and the other G8 countries.
UNIFEM Wins Political Innovation Prize for Gender-Responsive Budgeting Project in Senegal
Released: 7 Jul 2008
UNIFEM Calls on Governments to Analyze Impact of National Budgets on Women's Lives by 2015.
New blueprints on farm and non-farm trade issued for ‘crucial’ talks…
Released: 10 Jul 2008
The latest revisions of two papers including what could become the formulas for cutting tariffs and trade-distorting agricultural subsidies in a final deal were issued on 10 July 2008. They are the outcome of the latest discussions in negotiation groups and will be a focus of crucial talks combining these and some other subjects when a representative group of ministers meet in Geneva from 21 July.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said “Petrocaribe must become an anti-crisis shield to protect us from hunger”
Released: 14 Jul 2008
Seventeen countries in Central America and the Caribbean are to make down payments of only 40 percent on Venezuelan oil, while cooperating to expand their food supply, and calling on the North to take measures to curb speculation on futures markets, which is resulting in surging crude prices.
The WTO launches World Trade Report 2008: Trade in a Globalizing World
Released: 15 Jul 2008
Trade and globalization have brought greater prosperity to hundreds of millions as well as greater stability among nations, according to a report published today by the World Trade Organization.
Rising prices of rice a cause of worry for the Asians
Released: 15 Jul 2008
In Singapore, where almost 100 percent of foodstuff is imported, the government has allowed private importers to increase buffer stocks. The Philippines, the world’s largest importer of rice, has been busy shopping for the grain from producers such as China and Pakistan.
Zimbabwe “Basic Commodities Have Become Luxuries”
Released: 16 Jul 2008
Independent economists estimate that the Zimbabwean economy has shrunk by up to 70 percent since 2000 when President Robert Mugabe's supporters embarked on the violent expropriation of white-owned commercial farms.
Transition in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is Over, For Some
Released: 16 Jul 2008
Looking back over the nearly 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, it is clear to any of the 400 million people in the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union that the transition from centrally planned to market economies has not been an easy ride.
On the opening day of about a week of negotiations in Geneva, ministers said a Doha Round deal is badly needed because of economic uncertainties
Released: 21 Jul 2008
On the opening day of about a week of negotiations in Geneva, ministers said a Doha Round deal is badly needed because of economic uncertainties. They promised to strive to settle their differences on blueprint agreements — “modalities” — in agriculture and industrial products, provided the outcome is balanced.
Lamy urges members to focus on compromises
Released: 23 Jul 2008
Director-General Pascal Lamy, at the informal Trade Negotiations Committee meeting on 23 July 2008, characterized the second round of consultations held the day before as “constructive, with a strong commitment to engaging directly and in good faith”. He said he plans to start “working on key issues in agriculture and non-agricultural market access in smaller groups, together with the Negotiating Groups and General Council Chairs”.
Commonwealth workshop agrees on gender-awareness plan in public sector
Released: 23 Jul 2008
Pilot training projects using open distance learning are recommended.
A Partial Doha Agreement
Released: 25 Jul 2008
The trade ministers of 33 WTO member countries ironed out a few of the differences Friday that have been standing in the way of the completion of the Doha Round of multilateral trade talks, although the emerging deal must still win the backing of all of the global body’s 153 members.
Famine Looms as Aid Workers Flee
Released: 25 Jul 2008
By December this year the number of displaced and hungry people in need of life-saving aid in Somalia will rise to 3.5 million
ITC gives developing countries free access to trade analysis tools
Released: 25 Jul 2008
The International Trade Centre aims to enhance the export potential of developing countries by giving them free access to market analysis tools that help to identify market and product diversification opportunities.
WTO members give mixed reaction to new numbers
Released: 26 Jul 2008
A new set of compromise numbers has been circulated to WTO members and in the first response of the full membership today (26 July 2008) all speakers said it would be painful to accept but several said members should do so nonetheless.
EU ''Rushing'' EPAs Lest African States Change Their Minds
Released: 27 Jul 2008
Brussels is tempted to skip the translation of the interim economic partnership agreements (EPAs) into the 23 official European languages because of concerns that some African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries may change their minds about signing the final agreements.
One Pager (IPC) - Equitable Access to Financial Services: Is Microfinancing Sufficient?.
Released: 27 Jul 2008
Access to the financial sector has numerous benefits. Savers and investors are matched, transactions costs are lowered and liquidity is created. But less than half of the households in developing countries have access to financial services, compared to over 70 per cent in the developed world.
One Pager (IPC)Where Are the Jobs that Take People Out of Poverty in Brazil?
Released: 26 Jul 2008
WTO: Talks collapse despite progress on a list of issues
Released: 29 Jul 2008
WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy announced after long hours of hard talking that ministers have failed in their effort to agree on blueprint agreements in agriculture and industrial products. He told a press conference after speaking to members that out of a to-do list of 20 topics, 18 had seen positions converge but the gaps could not narrow on the 19th — the special safeguard mechanism for developing countries.
'Doha Round talks undermining regional integration'
Released: 29 Jul 2008
The ongoing Doha round of World Trade Organisation talks is seen to be undermining regional integration and economic development efforts by African countries, analysts have noted.
WTO: Capture progress and continue work, members say
Released: 30 Jul 2008
Issues settled in nine days of talks among ministers should be preserved and work in the Doha Round should continue despite the ministers’ talks collapsing the previous day, WTO members said on 30 July 2008.
Lamy calls for “serious reflection” on next steps
Released: 30 Jul 2008
Director-General Pascal Lamy reported to a formal meeting of the Trade Negotiations Committee on 30 July 2008 that “we were close to finalizing modalities in agriculture and non-agriculture market access...but we were not able to find convergence in the area of Special Safeguard Mechanism”. He said the substantial progress achieved in the past days should be preserved and urged members to look forward “to how we can do better next time, and I am convinced there will be a next time”.
Commonwealth disappointed by setback in Doha Round Talks
Released: 30 Jul 2008
News represents a serious challenge to the fact of globalisation, and to the mindset of globalism - Sharma
Collapse of Doha round of global trade talks disappointing, says Ban
Released: 30 Jul 2008
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced disappointment at the collapse of the Doha round of trade liberalization negotiations, expressing concern over the effect of the breakdown of the talks on developing nations.
Trade: Failure of talks a serious setback, admits Lamy
Released: 31 Jul 2008
At a press briefing just hours after the collapse of the Geneva WTO talks on Tuesday night, WTO Director General Pascal Lamy said there was no point beating about the bush about the serious setback caused by the failure of the negotiations.
Attainment of MDGs necessitates delivery of the Doha Development Agenda
Released: 31 Jul 2008
UNCTAD affirms its commitments to supporting a revival of the Doha talks
US Trade Representative Susan Schwab blaming India and China at press briefing
Released: 31 Jul 2008
US Trade Representative Susan Schwab said that five out of seven countries in the G7 had accepted the Lamy package put forward last Friday night, and implied that these two countries (India and China) had blocked the WTO talks in Geneva from success.