| UNCTAD Public Symposion paper
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Spikes in food and energy prices in 2007-2008 contributed to a conservatively estimated increase of 100 million food insecure people between 2006 and 2008, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. This paper reviews one factor in food and energy price volatility—financial speculation in commodities futures markets—and proposes options for stronger regulation. |
Steve Suppan |
05/30/09 |
222 k
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| IGTN/NETRIGHT Statement on UNCTAD
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A statement shared at the UNCTAD XII Civil Society Forum. |
IGTN and NETRIGHT |
04/16/08 |
80 k
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| Civil Society Forum Declaration to 12th Session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
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The Civil Society Forum, meeting on the occasion of UNCTAD XII (20-25 April 2008), took place in Accra, Ghana from 17 to 19 April 2008. It convened social movements, pro-development groups, women’s groups, trade unions, peasants and agricultural organizations, environmental organizations, faith-based organizations, and fair trade organizations. Participants of the forum are united in the defence of a number of principles, positions and actions that they wish to present to the member States of the United Nations Trade and Development Conference at its 12th session. |
Civil Society Groups at UNCTAD XII |
04/19/08 |
134 k
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| Understanding Food Sovereignty from a Gender Perspective and Mobilizing for Action
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Join IATP, ACORD, Action Aid International, FoodSPAN, IGTN and GERA in a two-part workshop on gender in food on April 17, 2008 at UNCTAD XII |
IATP |
04/15/08 |
244 k
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| Draft UNCTAD XII outcome
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Draft text to be finalised in Accra during the 12th session of UNCTAD |
UNCTAD |
04/09/08 |
234 k
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| BIOFUELS DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA: SUPPORTING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OR STRENGTHENING CORPORATE CONTROL?
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UNCTAD XII Civil society forum at the British Council Auditorium, GHANA will look at the impacts of biofuels on small and medium producers, consumers, and on the perspectives for sustainable development. |
IATP |
04/13/08 |
148 k
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| Women and Food Sovereignty: Understanding the Issue and Moving to Action
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A workshop to be held at the UNCTAD Ministerial in Accra, Ghana. |
Acord, IATP, Action Aid, IGTN, TWN Africa, Foodspan |
04/17/08 |
239 k
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| Failure Not An Option On Road To 2015; Annual 'Stock-Taking' Debates On Millennium Development Goals
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General Assembly President Srgjan Kerim proposed the convening of annual debates until 2015 to take stock of global progress and hold all development partners to account. |
United Nations |
04/02/08 |
177 k
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| UNCTAD XII draft march 2008
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New version of UNCTAD XII negotiations text |
UNCTAD |
03/17/08 |
10121 k
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| Report of January 28 pre-UNCTAD XII hearing with civil society
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Report of January 28 pre-UNCTAD XII hearing with civil society |
UNCTAD secretariat |
02/15/08 |
57 k
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| Report of March 3 pre-UNCTAD XII hearing with civil society
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Report of the pre-UNCTAD XII hearing with civil society held on March 3d in Geneva |
UNCTAD secretariat |
03/28/08 |
62 k
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| Report of the Secretary General to UNCTAD XII
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Globalization for development: opportunities and challenges |
Dr Supachai |
07/04/07 |
1762 k
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| The changing face of commodities
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Note prepared by UNCTAD secretariat for High Level Meeting on commodities (January 2008) |
UNCTAD secretariat |
03/06/08 |
131 k
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| UNCTAD XII: Hit or Miss?
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What's at stake at the upcoming United Nations Conference on Trade and Development? |
Anne Laure Constantin/IATP |
03/18/08 |
85 k
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| Theme and sub-themes for UNCTAD-XII agreed on
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A meeting of the UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Board met recently and agreed to adopt “addressing
opportunities and challenges of globalization for development” as its overriding theme. This article from Third World Network reviews the decision made by the the TDB. |
Third World Network |
04/30/07 |
36 k
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| Globalization and inclusive development
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This note highlights some topical policy issues that could contribute to
promoting a more inclusive, pro-poor process of globalization. |
UNCTAD |
08/27/07 |
67 k
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| Pre-Conference negotiating text
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Addressing the challenges of the current
stage of globalization and creating opportunities
for development. |
UNCTAD |
11/13/07 |
163 k
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| GLOBAL INITIATIVE ON COMMODITIES
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The Conference deliberated on major issues related to commodity development,
including supply-side constraints, value-chain issues, financing of diversification and the use
of resource rents. |
UNCTAD |
05/11/07 |
734 k
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| No to Corporate Europe; Yes to Global Justice
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As members of the Seattle to Brussels Network (S2B), we are calling for concerted efforts to roll back the strategy of the European Union called Global Europe:
Competing in the World , the EUs unfair bilateral trade agreements and corporate power. We also reject the false solution of unfair multilateralism and the EUs
proposals at the WTO, and a revival of the Doha Round in the exclusive premises of the World Economic Forum in Davos. |
Seattle to Brussels Network (S2B) |
01/25/08 |
21 k
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| GROWTH AND RESPONSIBILITY IN THE WORLD ECONOMY
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G8 Summit Declaration, 2007 |
G8 |
06/07/07 |
212 k
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| Financing for Development: From Monterrey to Doha
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Summary of the most recent trends, the possible issues on the agenda and the key events in the
preparatory process for the 2nd Global Conference on Financing for Development (FfD) to be
held in Doha in 2008. |
Jens Martens (Global Policy Forum, SW Germany) |
03/14/07 |
96 k
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| The E7 in international trade: Dynamism and cooperation
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Project LINK International Meeting, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
New realities in the geography of the world economy --
Brazil, India, China, Mexico,
Russia, South Africa and South Korea are the Emerging seven (E7). |
Sudip Ranjan Basu |
05/16/07 |
210 k
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| GETTING UNCTAD XII RIGHT: RECOMMENDATIONS ON THEME AND SUB-THEMES
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It seeks to provide a conceptual
overview of what UNCTAD XII should focus on so that the results of the
ministerial conference will be an UNCTAD that is stronger, better able to play a
significant role in global economic governance, and more capable of promoting –
through its three pillars of policy research and analysis, intergovernmental
consensus-building, and technical assistance – equitable and sustainable global
development, especially of developing countries. |
South Centre |
02/01/07 |
183 k
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| UNCTAD XII draft jan 2008
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A new version of the UNCTAD negotiations text |
Chair's text |
01/22/08 |
463 k
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| UNCTAD draft negotiating text
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draft negotiating text for the XIIth ministerial conference of UNCTAD. |
UNCTAD |
12/21/07 |
357 k
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