UN seized by corporate power
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- Written by Social Watch
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In the eve of Rio2012, civil society organizations all over the world are warning against the “growing influence of major corporations and business lobby groups within the UN”. Those concerns became also apparent in the thirteenth session of the UNCTAD in Doha, where the rich countries were trying to minimize the role of that agency, whose reports have consistently criticized the politics of deregulation, liberalization and privatization that benefit the private sector.
Monitoring Report on MDGs
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- Written by World Bank
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A new report on the Millennium Development Goals: colourful graphs on a dark reality ...
The beginning of the end of development?
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- Written by Nancy Birdsall
- Category: Analysis
In this paper, written as the introduction to New Ideas on Development after the Financial Crisis (JHU Press, 2011), Nancy Birdsall discusses two themes. The first is the pre-crisis subtle shift in the prevailing model of capitalism in developing countries—away from orthodoxy or so-called market fundamentalism—that the crisis is likely to reinforce
Better Jobs for a Better Economy
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- Written by ILO
- Category: Documents
The World of Work Report 2012: no recovery yet for labour markets
May Day: The Return of the Trade-Unions?
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- Written by Immanuel Wallerstein
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Organizing trade unions was a quite radical idea as late as the first half of the nineteenth century. They were illegal almost everywhere. So when the laws prohibiting them were repealed in some European countries, North America, and Australia in the second half of the nineteenth century, it was intended as a concession to the pressures of the workers, actually the urban workers, in the hope and expectation that the working classes would then be less radical in their demands.
1 May 2012
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Last year, on 1 May, I was walking around in Rome after an interesting conference on the Common Good of Humanity. It was the day the former pope, the Polish John Paul II, was being beatified. The city was full of Polish people, many of them walking around with a red scarf around their neck and a red rose in their hands. An alliance between the Church and labour?
Vote on European FTT
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- Written by Podimata
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Report of Ms Podimata, discussed and voted on in the Economic and Monetary Committee of the European Parliament on April 25 2012. The final report will be available soon.
UN and Corporate power
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- Written by Social Watch
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In the eve of Rio2012, civil society organizations all over the world are warning against the “growing influence of major corporations and business lobby groups within the UN”. Those concerns became also apparent in the thirteenth session of the UNCTAD in Doha, where the rich countries were trying to minimize the role of that agency, whose reports have consistently criticized the politics of deregulation, liberalization and privatization that benefit the private sector.
World Bank Oversees Global Land Grab
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(From UN TerraViva)
(IPS) - The World Bank continues to facilitate land-grabbing in poor and developing countries around the world, according to new research released here on Monday.
The report by Friends of the Earth, an international watchdog, is part of a host of initiatives taking place ahead of the start of the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, which runs for the next four days.
Friends of the Earth says that anywhere from 80 to 227 million hectares of rural, often agrarian land, typically in poorer countries hungry for foreign investment, have been taken over by private and corporate interests in recent years.
Switzerland and Austria sign deal protecting bank secrecy
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- Written by Alex Marriage
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(From Global Financial Integrity)
Switzerland has just signed a ‘Rubik’ deal with Austria which protects banks secrecy in return for an anonymous tax being returned to Austria. This is similar to the ruinous Rubik deals made with Britain and Germany. This deal, which must be ratified by both countries’ parliaments, makes public a covert Swiss-Austrian alliance to block EU cooperation against tax dodgers and prevent automatic exchange of tax information between European governments.
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UNCTAD maintains its “clear mandate” to analyze the global economic crisis
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