If you have a relevant resource (books, papers, bulletins, etc.) you would like to see announced in this section, please forward a copy for review by the BRIDGES staff to Hugo Cameron, hcameron@ictsd.ch. Submissions of publications to ICTSD’s documentation centre would also be welcome (contact Matteo Rizzolli, mrizzolli@ictsd.ch).
New ICTSD Publications
February 2002 edition of BRIDGES BETWEEN TRADE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT monthly review is now available on the ICTSD website at http://www.ictsd.org/monthly. Featured articles include: Bold Development Box Proposals Meet with Stiff Resistance; Food Security and Rural DevelopmentAfrica in WTO Agriculture Negotiations; China’s WTO Membership Reveals a Savvy Player; Doha Round Negotiating Structure, Chairs Agreed; and Revisiting the Technology Transfer Debate.
PASSERELLES: SYNTHESE MENSUELLE SUR LE COMMERCE ET LE DEVELOPPEMENT DURABLE. 12 mars 2002. New monthly electronic bulletin in French produced in conjunction with ENDA Tiers Monde. Ce bulletin a pour ambition de soutenir la participation des pays d’Afrique francophone aux négociations commerciales à travers la diffusion régulière d’informations en français sur les négociations en cours à l’Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC) et dans d’autres enceintes. To subscribe, send an email to passerelles@ictsd.ch and put subscribe in the subject line. Or visit http://www.ictsd.org/pass_synthese/.
INDICATORS OF THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF IPRS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. By Sanjaya Lall with the collaboration of Manuel Albaladejo. November 2001. This paper focuses on the long-term structural issues concerning the impact of TRIPS on industrial and technology development in poor countries. It seeks to indicate the potential significance of intellectual property rights (IPRs) by differentiating developing countries according to the expected impact of stronger protection. Produced through the UNCTAD-ICTSD Capacity Building Project on IPRs and Development. To access, visit http://www.iprsonline.org/index.htm.
TRADE NEGOTIATIONS INSIGHTS. February 2002. A joint ECDPM-ICTSD-ODI quarterly publication on the major issues faced by African and ACP countries in their international trade negotiations at the WTO and with the EU in the context of the Cotonou Agreement. Available in French and English at http://www.ictsd.org/issarea/africa/index.htm.
Resources
GOVERNANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: FIVE OECD CASE STUDIES. Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), 2002. 352 pages. This publication presents five governmental experiments aimed at promoting sustainable development in Canada, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands and the UK. These countries were selected on the basis of their diversity in terms of size and natural conditions. The five case studies illustrate specific institutional and decision-making efforts to adapt governance frameworks in order to respond to sustainable development challenges. The country studies are introduced by an analytical section, which focuses mainly on the way governments (at all levels) could develop integrated approaches to decision-making, on how they could ensure effective participation of civil society, and how they could improve their capacity to "take a longer-term view"that is to design policies that remain sustainable over the longer- term. To obtain a copy visit the OECD website at: http://oecdpublications.gfi-nb.com/cgi- bin/OECDBookShop.storefront/EN/product/422002051P1.
SUSTAINABLE TRADE IN TEXTILES AND CLOTHING. Published by World Wide Fund for Nature, March 2002, compiled by Aimee Gonzales, WWF. A dialogue report from the Expert Panel on Trade and Sustainable Development (EPTSD). This publication is a follow-up to an international dialogue promoting sustainable trade in textiles and clothing held in London, UK on 24-25 January 2002 as part of a series of participatory dialogues convened under the EPTSD project to examine issues in the trade, environment and development interface and promote integrated solutions. The document is available in pdf format at: http://www.panda.org/resources/programmes/trade/publications.
OUR VISION FOR THE FUTURE: A SUSTAINABLE AGRIGULTURE FOR ALL EUROPEANS. Published by Committee of Agriculture Organisations in the European Union (COPA) and the General Committee for Agricultural Cooperation in the European Union, 11 February 2002. The paper begins with an overview of the European agricultural model, suggests that a better reform model is needed, lays out plans for the future common agricultural policy, and concludes with new conventions to start in the 21st century. The document is available, in different languages, on COPA/COGECA’s website, http://www.copa.be/, under the section "factsheets".
"The relationship between environmental values and income in a transition economy: surface water quality in Latvia," by Richard C. Ready and Janis Malzubris Silva Senkane, in ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS, 7 (1, 2002): 147-156. A contingent valuation study measured citizen willingness to pay (WTP) for an improvement in surface water quality in Latvia. The average respondent was willing to pay 0.7 per cent of household income for the environmental improvement, but that amount was much less than needed to finance the required investments in treatment facilities. While the income elasticity of WTP for the average resident was low (0.56), it increases as income increases, reaching 0.9 at an income level double the current average. The paper concludes that as real incomes increase in Latvia, the demand for environmental quality by citizens can be expected to increase substantially.
Electronic Resources
EUROSTEP’S WEBSITE is now available at http://www.eurostep.org/. Eurostep — European Solidarity Towards Equal Participation of People — is a network of 19 major non-governmental development organisations (NGDOs) from 15 European countries collectively working in around 100 countries. The two main principals of the group are to influence official development co-operation policies of multilateral institutions, and in particular those of the European Union; and to improve the quality and effectiveness of initiatives taken by NGOs in support of people-centred development. Eurostep will also launch new features on its website by the end of March.