EU-India Free Trade Talks: In Whose Interest?

WDEV Recent Issues

Issue 4/Jul-Aug 2008

Global Stagflation? + New LDC Report + Reforming Conditionality + Global Economic Insecurity + G5 Political Decalaration

Issue 3/May-Jun 2008

Food: The Speculation Factor + New Green Revolution? + Livestock: Global Value Chaines + REDD: Manaus Declaration + Aid Effectiveness

Issue 2/Mar-Apr 2008

Global Food Crisis + Zoellick's Blueprint for the Bank + Ilisu and Western Credibility + Spreading Benefits of Globalisation + Women and Decent Work

Issue 1/Jan-Feb 2008

EU-India Free Trade Talks: In Whose Interest? + The Risk of a Global Economic Recession + FDI at New Heights + EITI Beyond German G8 Presidency + Are We 'All Keynesians Now'? + South-South Cooperation against Child Labour

Issue 6/Nov-Dec 2007

Lisbon EU-Africa Summit + Shift in Globalisation Debate + Trade Unions and Globalisation + The Falling Dollar + The Biofuel Debate in Brasil + Agentina's Comback without the IMF

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WDEV Highlights

African Despotism and European Double Standards

Is there anything unusual about the events in question? An African despot, a good deal of bloodshed - at least 80 dead, 10,000 injured, 200,000 displaced -, a rigged election, a concentrated effort to dilute international interest which is very little in the first place - that list contains nothing out of the usual or expected, does it?

Global Slowdown: The LCDs' Sword of Damocles

The world´s 50 poorest nations saw the values of their exports climb by a collective 80% from 2004-2006 and recorded their highest rates of economic growth in 30 years. But their increased dependence on selling a few unsophisticated products leaves them vulnerable to a reversal, this year’s LDC report of UNCTAD warns.

Reforming IMF and World Bank Conditionality

The new century started with streamlining initiatives from the IMF and the World Bank to their conditionality, but these have not managed to deliver real change. The arguments have not changed over the last years, and opponents have become firmly entrenched in their positions. The machinery, however, seem to be coming slowly to life after the impasse.

A New Deal Against Spreading Economic Insecurity

According to the new UN's World Economic and Social Survey, recent optimism that the corner was being turned on poverty thanks to faster growth in emerging markets and even some very poor economies is turning to anxiety, as the global economy downshifts, prices spike and weaknesses in formal-sector employment are exposed.

The Political Declaration of the Group of 5 (G5)

For the first time at a G8 summit the group of five countries which are called Outreach-5 (O5) by the G8 (Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa) held its own meeting prior to the meeting with the G8 leaders. The G5 Political Declaration is providing substantial alternatives to the multiple crises of the world - from finance to food security, from energy to climate and development.