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World Bank to Exploit Trade for Structural Adjustment

IPS | April 23, 2001 | Analysis by Abid Aslam WASHINGTON - The World Bank will intensify its efforts to open borrowing countries to foreign investors by using trade as a lever, according to an internal document to be discussed by development and planning ministers next week.

Stop FTAA

The Free Trade Area of the Americas and the Threat to Social Programs, Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice in Canada and the Americas by Maude Barlow http://www.canadians.org/campaigns/campaigns-tradepub-ftaa2.html:

Leaked FTAA Text on Investment May Erode Sovereignty

Inter Press Service | April 19, 2001 | By Gumisai Mutume QUEBEC CITY - Civil society groups here say a leaked copy of the investment chapter of the draft text agreement of the Free Trade Area of the Americas confirms their worst fears.

FTAA Chapter on Investment Now Public

The Investment Chapter deals fundamentally with whether investor rights will take precedence over labor, human and environmental rights.:

WTO Seeks Bigger Services Role for Poorer Nations

Reuters / By Robert Evans GENEVA (Reuters) - World Trade Organization (WTO) countries agreed Wednesday to shape coming liberalization negotiations to try to ensure that developing countries play a larger role in the global services industry.

WTO Deadlock On Implementation

Inside US Trade March 23, 2001 Developing countries' efforts to wring more benefits from existing World Trade Organization agreements ran into a wall of silence from the leading industrial countries at an informal General Council meeting late last week.

Agricultural Product Liability and GMOS

EU farmers liable for GM damage

WTO Members To Begin Informal Talks For Qatar Ministerial

WTO MEMBERS TO BEGIN INFORMAL TALKS FOR QATAR MINISTERIAL _______________________________________________ Date: March 9, 2001 - Inside US Trade -

Final Resolution from the Second Prepcom On Finance for Development

The International Conference on Financing for Development will be held in Mexico in 2002 at the highest political level including a summit, the concluding resolution of the second FfD Preparatory Committee recommended on Friday 23 February 2001. (Full text of the resolution is available on the FfD website : www.un.org/esa/ffd).

IMF, World Bank to Meet with African Leaders

Agence France Presse BAMAKO, Feb 19 (AFP) - The heads of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were to meet here Monday with the leaders of more than a dozen African nations on how best to promote development in the region.