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Agriculture Negotiations: Signals Of Renewed Momentum Cropping Up
New signs of movement in agriculture negotiations — the key element of the Doha round — are cropping up after a period of scant progress following the collapse of trade talks in Cancun in September 2003. Due to a number of high-level meetings between individual trade ministers and groups of ministers over the past weeks…
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CTD: Declining Commodity Prices In The Spotlight
The WTO Committee on Trade and Development (CTD) held its 48th session on 18 February 2004, chaired by newly-elected Ambassador Trevor Clarke (Barbados). Discussions in the Committee focused mainly on the issue of declining commodity prices, which had been introduced by Kenya. The meeting formally elected Ambassador Clarke as the Committee’s new chair for meetings…
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UNCTAD Releases Report On Commodity Dependence In Africa
On 26 February, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) released a report entitled "Economic Development in Africa: Trade Performance and Commodity Dependence". As part of the revival of UNCTAD’s work on commodities, the report attempts to put in perspective Africa’s declining share of world trade, reviewing the structure and composition of Africa’s…
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Second Civil Society Hearing In Lead-Up To UNCTAD XI
On 23 February 2004, the Preparatory Committee for UNCTAD XI organised its second hearing for civil society and the private sector, addressing all four of UNCTAD XI’s sub-themes — development strategies in a globalising world economy; building productive capacity and international competitiveness; assuring development gains from the international trading system and trade negotiations; and…
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Biodiversity Bodies Deal With Tricky Trade Issues
AFRICAN PEER REVIEW MECHANISM TO ATTRACT FOREIGN INVESTMENT On 13 February nine African heads of state met in Kigali, Rwanda, to discuss various programmes under the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). The NEPAD meeting agreed on rules for the review panel of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), a self-monitoring instrument, and on which…
- Events
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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. Coming Up: 26 February to 3 March until 27 February 2004: EU TRADE NEWS PUBLIC CONSULTATION: IMPROVING SUSTAINABILITY IMPACT ASSESSMENTS. All interested parties are invited…
- Resources
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Resources
CLIMATE AND TRADE RULES - HARMONY OR CONFLICT? By the Swedish National Board of Trade (January 2004). The report seeks to clarify the relationship between UN Climate Convention, its Kyoto Protocol and WTO-rules. This in order to promote mutual supportiveness between the two sets of rules. The authors have focused on a number of trade-related…