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New World Order in Doha’s Wake
Released: 1 Aug 2008
The standoff between China and India, the world’s two fastest growing economies, and the United States not only buried the last attempt to save the Doha Round, but also demonstrated changes in the balance of power since the WTO was created in 1995, say observers.
With the collapse of the WTO talks this week, APEC looking forward to working out a deal that would help its 21 members
Released: 2 Aug 2008
Collapse of WTO talks puts spotlight back on a potential deal among Apec economies, writes Umesh Pandey
With the failure of Doha talks focus is on EPA’s
Released: 2 Aug 2008
With the failure of the Doha development round trade talks fresh in everyone’s minds, the focus now shifts to the equally controversial Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA’s).
INDIA: Mixed Feelings Over WTO Failure in Geneva
Released: 3 Aug 2008
The collapse of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations at Geneva has left Indian analysts with mixed feelings. One view is that no deal is better than a bad one. The other is that because the alternative for developing countries is far worse, India should have been more flexible.
India Gets $521 Million World Bank Funding For Polio, Malaria
Released: 1 Aug 2008
India was given almost $521 million of funding from the World Bank to fight infectious diseases, including polio and malaria, which kill thousands of people in the South Asian nation and risk spreading overseas.
Address Power Relations to Achieve Development Goals, say Leading Gender Experts
Released: 4 Aug 2008
Advances in policies and legislations at the macro-level do not necessarily bring about progress for women. Their implementation are frequently obstructed by entrenched structures, values and power relations at the meso- and micro-level, shaping local policies, communities and cultural beliefs and women’s daily lives. This is the level where empowerment must occur if progress for women is to be achieved.
Global public health goals thwarted by human rights violations, gender inequality and stigma
Released: 8 Aug 2008
As the XVII International AIDS Conference drew to a close, HIV experts from around the globe highlighted the dramatic negative impact that stigma and the denial of human rights, including gender inequality, continue to have on the effectiveness of HIV treatment and prevention scale up.
Farm talks’ chair circulates his ‘July package’ report
Released: 11 Aug 2008
REPORT TO THE TRADE NEGOTIATIONS COMMITTEE BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SPECIAL SESSION OF THE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, AMBASSADOR CRAWFORD FALCONER
Non-farm talks’ chair submits his ‘July package’ report
Released: 12 Aug 2008
Report by the Chairman, Ambassador Don Stephenson to the Trade Negotiations Committee
WTO Director General: “We have never been so close to an agreement”
Released: 12 Aug 2008
Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his remarks at the opening of the “Global Partnership for Development” conference in New Delhi on 12 August 2008, said that at the end of the Geneva talks last month “members told us very clearly that the negotiations should not be abandoned ... too much has been achieved now to simply leave it aside”. This is what he said:
Negotiations can find compromise on the safeguards issue — Lamy
Released: 13 Aug 2008
Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his remarks on the second day of the “Global Partnership for Development” conference in New Delhi on 13 August 2008, said that the Doha Round should not collapse over the issue of the special safeguard mechanism in agriculture for developing countries. “A fine balance is required and the search for this fine balance requires that our negotiating resources continue at work,” he added. This is what he said:
Distance learning seen as way to promote gender awareness
Released: 13 Aug 2008
Draft action plan is applauded by government officials present at Commonwealth meeting
Water Progresses, Sanitation Regresses
Released: 18 Aug 2008
The world's poorest nations are making halting progress in water, but little or no tangible improvement in sanitation -- two of the basic necessities of life
The Global Benefits and Losses from The U.S. Recession and Recovery Package – One Pager from IPC
Released: 28 Aug 2008
Until 2007, many people had believed that global economic growth,led by the U.S., could continue unabated for the foreseeable future. Mainstream commentators based their optimism on greater global economic integration and the adoption of market-driven patterns of development. They seemed little concerned that global current account imbalances, especially the U.S. deficit, would remain huge.
Southern African Leaders Sign Long Awaited Gender Protocol
Released: 21 Aug 2008
After three years of negotiation, leaders of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), signed into effect the Protocol on Gender and Development amidst celebration from activists. The document was signed at the SADC Heads of State Summit held on 16 and 17 August in Johannesburg, South Africa.
World Bank Updates Poverty Estimates for the Developing World
Released: 26 Aug 2008
New poverty estimates published by the World Bank reveal that 1.4 billion people in the developing world (one in four) were living on less than US$1.25 a day in 2005, down from 1.9 billion (one in two) in 1981.
Recommendations for Action on Development Effectiveness in Accra and beyond
Released: 30 Aug 2008
On the 30th August 2008, women’s rights organizations, women’s empowerment organisations, gender advocates and experts from all regions of the world attended the Accra International Women’s Forum to discuss the implementation of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. A statement from the forum calls for actions and recommendations for the 3rd High Level Forum.
World Bank Calls for Urgent Action on Food in advance of Development Aid talks in Ghana
Released: 31 Aug 2008
As international development agencies, donors and civil society groups head to Ghana to discuss improving aid effectiveness, the World Bank is calling for immediate action to drop restrictions on food assistance. The Bank says ending earmarking and requirements to buy food aid from donors would go a long way to ensuring food gets to poor people hit hardest by rising prices.