Extreme poverty is declining, says World Bank
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Extreme poverty (below 1.25 US$ & day) has been declining between 2005 and 2008, says the World Bank. It revealed new numbers for different world regiuons yesterday.
Global Social Justidce will comment on these new statistics in the coming days.
Latin America, Testing Ground for Chinese Yuan
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- Written by Fabiana Frayssinet
- Category: Analysis
(From UN Terraviva)
China is looking to Latin America to experiment with the yuan, or renminbi, to replace the dollar, taking advantage of the growth in Chinese trade and investment in this region. But because the volume is still insignificant, it is not yet clear what impact the currency will have on economies in the region.
Corporate citizenship?
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- Written by Peter Weiss
- Category: Analysis
Should corporations have more leeway to kill than people do?
On the responsibility for human rights violations and new legislation in the USA.
Transnational corporations and human rights
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- Written by CETIM
- Category: Analysis
To understand the system of dominant power in contemporary society, it is necessary to understand the role that transnational corporations play within it. And it is important to know how TNCs can continue to violate human rights.
On UNCTAD's TDR Reports...
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- Written by Chakravarthi Raghavan
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The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), at an UNCTAD-XIII pre-conference event Monday 20 February, marked three decades of its flagship annual publication devoted to the "overall perspective of development in its totality and complexity", as a participant in a panel on the origins and evolving ideas of the Trade and Development Report (TDR) put it.
Under the title, "Thinking Development: Three Decades of the Trade and Development Report", former UNCTAD officials, economists, academics and current diplomats spoke of the TDR and its contribution to independent thinking and exploration of ideas for development, often running counter to the viewpoints and policies promoted by the centers and their international organizations, like the Bretton Woods Institutions and the old GATT and now the WTO controlled by them.
In a presentation dripping with sarcasm ...
More Money of More Development?
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- Written by C. Kenny and A. Summer
- Category: Analysis
What have the MDG's achieved?
Disucssions about what should happen after 2015 are beginning, with sometimes surprising results ...
and also check http://beyond2015.org
Lost Billions: Transfer Pricing in the extractive industries
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- Written by Publish What You Pay
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Over 110 billion US$ have disappeared through mispricing of crude oil in the US and the EU between 2000 and 2010 ...
Nine EU countries ask for FTT
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Nine EU member states - Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Austria, Finland, Greece and Portugal - have asked the Danish Presidency of the Council of Ministers and the European Commission to 'speed up' the introduction of a Financial Transaction Tax. Nine countries: this is precisely what is needed to have an 'enhanced cooperation', or to introduce legislation in spite of the opposition of some countries. The nine stress that the FTT will be needed to have the financial sector contribute to the solution of the current crisis and to stabilize the financial markets.
Trade, Growth and Development
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- Written by European Commission
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Two members of the European Commission, the one for Development, Piebalgs, and the one for Trade, De Gucht, have worked together to make this new communication in which they want to make clear that development is absolutely necessary to achieve development. But who wants trade most?
On the impact of an FTT
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- Written by Griffith-Jones & Persaud
- Category: Analysis
This study shows that a Financial Transaction Tax in Europe can have a positive impact on growth and jobs.
Illicit financial flows from Least Developed Countries
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- Written by GFI/UNDP
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