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UNCTAD XI: Key Members Report Growing Consensus On Main Farm Trade Issues
UNCTAD XI: KEY MEMBERS REPORT GROWING CONSENSUS ON MAIN FARM TRADE ISSUES Senior trade envoys from the US, EC, Brazil, India and Australia reported very positive and useful outcomes of informal trade talks held on 13 June by the so-called group of ‘five interested parties’ (FIPs). Meeting at the eve of the 13-18 June UN…
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UNCTAD XI Pushes For Development Priorities
Taking place from the 13-18 June in Sao Paolo, Brazil, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) XI conference is organised around the main theme of "enhancing the coherence between national development strategies and global economic processes towards economic growth and development, particularly of developing countries". The four sub-themes of the conference are development…
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G-8 Discusses Trade, Development
The Group of Eight Summit (G-8) leaders met from 8-10 June in Sea Island, Georgia, US for their annual summit. While the summit focused largely on security matters, trade and development issues also played an important part in discussions. The G-8 leaders — from the US, Canada, Japan, UK, Germany, France, Russia and Italy —…
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US Supreme Court Rules Against Moratorium On Mexican Trucks
The US Supreme Court on 7 June overturned an appellate decision and unanimously found that the Bush Administration could lift a moratorium allowing Mexican trucks to operate in the US without a full environmental impact study. Following complaints from labour and environmental groups, the US Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), a division of the…
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Vacancies
Vacancy At ICTSD PROGRAMME OFFICER, DEVELOPMENT ISSUES. ICTSD is implementing an integrated information, dialogue and research programme that aims to support trade and non-trade policy knowledge communities in the challenge of connecting sustainable development objectives with international trade. The Programme Officer will assist with with the design and implementation of projects in ICTSD’s…
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In Brief
G-77 CELEBRATES FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY From 11-12 June in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Group of 77 (G-77) and China held a ministerial meeting to commemorate the group’s 40th anniversary. In addition to calling on the international community to fully and speedily achieve the Millennium Development Goals, their Ministerial Declaration noted that countries "are concerned about the adverse…
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Events
EVENTS For a more comprehensive list of events in trade and sustainable development, please refer to ICTSD’s web calendar at: http://www.ictsd.org/cal/index.htm. If you would like to submit an event, please email events@ictsd.ch. ICTSD 17 June, Sao Paolo, Brazil: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS - CHALLENGES FOR DEVELOPMENT. This ICTSD/UNAIDS Policy Dialogue, organised as a UNCTAD XI side event,…
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Resources
RESOURCES INVESTMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: A GUIDE TO THE USE AND POTENTIAL OF INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT AGREEMENTS. By the International Institute for Sustainable Development (June 2004). This new book offers an overview of the features, as well as some of the shortcomings, of international investment agreements. It argues that the agreements should be designed so as to…