DEVELOPMENT:  'New Trade Preferences Unfair to Developing World'
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BRUSSELS, Oct 21 (IPS) - A leading development group has slammed EU plans to  amend trade discounts to developing countries.
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BERLIN, Oct 23 (IPS) - Some of the ways in which the MDGs are being pushed  could actually limit development, says Inge Kaul, former director  of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Office of  Development Studies.
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China&#39;s tax on its textile exports is a backward step last week&#39;s twist in textiles is depressing proof, if any were needed, of how hard it is to straighten out world trade.
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The World Trade Organization called on the United States and Europe to lower their farm barriers in return for greater access to India, Brazil and other parts of the developing world for exports.
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Beijing this weekend urged Washington, DC, not to limit imports of Chinese cotton slacks. The Ministry of Commerce said such a restriction would violate World Trade Organization principles and hurt trade relations.
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The presidents of Brazil and France have called for new efforts to fight poverty and hunger in the developing world, including the controversial creation of an international tax, to combat the negative effects ...
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BRUSSELS, Jul 20 (IPS) - African governments are worried that funds from the  European Union (EU) to help them increase their countries'  share of world trade could be at the expense of other forms of  development aid.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 22  (IPS) - The EU has published 15 case studies to show that  trade for development is "not an  empty slogan used in  Brussels", but is "showing some excellent results on the   ground."
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany, Jun 8 (IPS) - The Group of Eight industrialised countries suffered a setback Friday in its plan to strengthen intellectual property rights through &quot;promoting innovation - protecting innovation&quot; when the five developing world&#39;s leaders -- China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico -- forced a key change in the final statement.
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Developed countries should do more for Africa, including opening their markets to trade, the head of the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday.
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Financial Times, 29 September 2004 - Developing countries must take action to reduce corruption and cronyism in order to improve investment climates and promote growth and poverty reduction, the World Bank said yesterday.
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With 40 years of textile quotas about to be abolished in a move to help developing nations, a group of the world&#39;s poorest countries are asking for a different approach: special trade deals to protect them from a free-for-all.
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Trade, apart from peace and prosperity, is always held up as the great EU success story. If only the EU could get its act together in other areas, such as foreign affairs, it would be a global power, the argument runs.
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One of the great threats to the American and global economies is trade protectionism. The 2006 election that gave Democrats majorities in the House and Senate tipped toward candidates who ran on protectionism. Think of Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Jon Tester,...
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BRUSSELS, Oct 13 (IPS) - EU proposals to improve competitiveness in the  clothing and textiles industry before trade quotas run out offer  little comfort to developing countries, civil society groups say.
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BRUSSELS, Aug 27  (IPS) - The new EU member states will soon take lessons in  development cooperation from  developing countries.
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Developing countries are agitating for greater decision-making power in the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, but the head of the IMF acknowledged that political consensus on the question was lacking.