WTOIL Contents -- HTML Format: August Edition

ICDA WTO Impact List: August Edition

Wednesday 1 August[QATAR/WTO]:New Trade Round; Agricultural Subsidies; Genoa; Developing Country Views

1) TIME RUNNING OUT FOR NEW TRADE AGENDA?
2) MORE FROM MOORE: WTO MUST FIND TALK DEALS
3) TOUGH GOING FOR EU IN WTO FARM TALKS
4) POOR REMAIN SHUT OUT
5) CHOMSKY ON POPULAR PROTEST
6) A STAKE IN THE WTO MEDICINE

Thursday 2 August:[REGIONAL TRADE]: Don't Cry For Blair, Argentina; More on APEC; FTAA, and Other Regional Trade Blocs; Impact of EURO on Africa

1) SUMMARY/OVERVIEW/DEVELOPMENT REPORT: REGIONAL TRADE
2) BLAIR TAKES FREE TRADE CRUSADE TO ARGENTINA
3) ROUGH START FOR THE EURO
4) SADC FACING FREE TRADE CHALLENGE
5) GOVT NGO STRATEGY ON NGO EXPOSED
6) TIME TO GIVE APEC A WELL-DESERVED BURIAL
7) 'ASIA IS ONE'
8) INDIAN OCEAN RIM ASSOCIATION FOR REGIONAL COOPERATION
9) TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT
10) UNVEILING NAFTA FOR THE AMERICAS

Friday 3 August 2001[FfDEVELOPMENT]:Questioning Economic Growth; Persistent Problems in Global Financial Management;IMF Conditionality

1) QUESTIONING THE WISDOM AND HISTORY OF ECONOMIC GROWTH
2) ATTACKING THE FEUDALISM OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
3) CARROTS AND STICKS: A QUICK FIX FOR IMF CONDITIONALITY

Monday 6 August[UN LDC3]: Pandora Revisited:The Plight of LDCs and Food Security; FAO Summit -- from First to Third rate Tactics?

1) SUMMARY/OVERVIEW/DEVELOPMENT REPORT -- UNLDC3
2) NO AFRICA TRADE/ENVIRONMENT LINK AT WTO
3) SUMMIT MAY BE "DUMPED" ON AFRICA
4) "TRIPs-PLUS" TREATIES LEAVE WTO IN THE DUST 5) UN BIZNESS PARTNERSHIPS -- WHOSE AGENDA COUNTS?

Tuesday 7 August [RIO+10]:PrepCom News;Issues for WSSD; Chomsky interview; UN Global Compact

1) RIO+10 PREP COM REPORTS-SCHEDULES
2) WSSD: THE BIGGEST SHOW IN TOWN
3) SEATTLE - BEFORE AND AFTER
4) UN GLOBAL COMPACT: YEAR NO.1

Wednesday 8 August [WTO/QATAR] Disputes inside the EU, WTO "reality check", Blair's Latin America check

1) EC OFFICIAL KNOCKS EXCHEQUER'S IDEA FOR TRADE ROUND
2) DEVELOPING COUNTRIES SPEAK AGAINST NEW ISSUES
3) WTO "REALITY CHECK" REVEALS WIDENING DIFFERENCES
4) THE RUINS TONY BLAIR SHOULD VISIT

Thursday 9 August[REGIONAL TRADE]: Who's Afraid of Brazil?; Naysaying Overtures for NAFTA -- Australia/Mercosur

1) MERCOSUR AND ALTERNATIVE WORLD ORDERS
2) CONVERGENCE COUNCIL URGES STRICTER COMPLIANCE WITH CRITERIA
3) NEW ZEALAND TRADE DELEGATION TO VISIT MERCOSUR
4) SADC BACKS STABILITY PRINCIPLES
5) TRADE LINKS FLOURISHING
6) NAFTA AFTER 5: IMPACT OF NAFTA ON AUSTRALIA TRADE/INVESTMENT
7) GRAVE DANGERS IN A FREE TRADE/INVESTMENT AGREEMENT W./ H.K
8) FIRST SIX MONTHS OF SINGAPORE FREE TRADE A FAILURE ((LATEST!!)

Friday 10 August [FfDevelopment] IMF Shortcomings, Assessing Capital Inflows, Insuring Africa, Corporate Globalization and the Poor

1) IMF "RESCUE" WON'T HELP LATIN AMERICA
2) DURABLE FLOWS, DURABLE BENEFITS
3) INSURING AFRICA
4) CORPORATE GLOBALIZATION AND THE POOR

Monday 13 August[UN LDC3]: FOOD SECURITY -- 'Dubious Distinctions'; Commentary on UNDP's HDR; Africans Act Proactively?

1) OPEN LETTER FROM LEAD AUTHOR OF THE UNDP HDR 2001 REPORT
2) DEVINDER SHARMA RESPONDS TO OPEN LETTER FROM UNDP
3) FAO/WHO COLLABORATE TO RESOLVE FOOD SECURITY PROBLEMS
4) AFRICANS PRESS ECONOMIC INITIATIVES
5) GROUNDWORK 2001 CONCERTS TO RAISE MONEY FOR FAO
6) NO TECHNOFIX FOR THIRD WORLD POOR

Tuesday 14 August[RIO+10]:UN HDR and GE; Africa in world trade; China's future environmental policy

1) U.N. DEAD WRONG ABOUT ENGINEERED CROPS
2) AFRICA IN WORLD TRADE
3) CHINA'S FUTURE ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGY

Thursday 16 August:[REGIONAL TRADE]: AUSTRALIA/NZ SPECIAL: A New Zeal for Rapprochement?; Moore Revisited; Guess Who's Coming to NZ?

1) NAFTA AFTER 5: IMPACT OF NAFTA ON AUSTRALIA TRADE/INVESTMENT
2) GRAVE DANGERS IN A FREE TRADE/INVESTMENT AGREEMENT W./ H.K.--2/3
3) SINGAPORE FREE TRADE AGREEMENT -- A TROJAN HORSE
4) SHARED ROOTS AND GLOBALIZATION
5) MOORE OR LESS RIOTOUS REIGN
6) CATCHING THE KNOWLEDGE WAVE
7) HARMONIZATION OF AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
8) TRADE BLOC A TRICKY GOAL FOR DIVIDED N-EAST ASIA
9) GOFF WELCOMES SUPACHAI VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND

Friday 17 August [FfDevelopment] Rhetoric Makes Argentina Worse, Debt Relief, NGOs Call for Resistance to IFIs

1) RHETORIC MAKES ARGENTINA WORSE
2) WORLD BANK SHOULD STOP ACTING LIKE A LOAN SHARK
3) IMF AND WORLD BANK, DODGING SCRUTINY?
4) 50 YEARS IS ENOUGH: DEMANDS FOR IMF AND WORLD BANK

Monday 20 August:[UN LDC3]:UNDP Admits Ills of Globalization; SADC/COMESA--Prepared for Qatar?; Food First; Interview with Lamy; Cowardly New World

1) UNDP CHIEF LISTS ILLS OF GLOBALIZATION, WORLD BANK
2) TEAMING UP ECONOMIC POWERHOUSES (SADC + COMESA)
3) AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY
4) SPEECH BY NEW ZEALAND AMBASSADOR TO THE U.S.A
5) GLOBALIZATION DONE GENTLY
6) HOW USEFUL IS THE G8?

Tuesday 21 August [RIO+10]:The Battle for Basmati; Globalization impact study; World Bank here they come; Kyoto- what's next?; UN to be protested?.

1) BASMATI RICE PATENT BATTLE
2) RIGHTS: NGOs BACK UN CALL FOR GLOBALISATION IMPACT STUDY
3) WORLD CONFERENCES AND PROTEST
4) KYOTO PROTOCOL: EMISSIONS IMPOSSIBLE?
5) SAFETY OF MEETINGS AFTER GENOA

Wednesday 22 August [Qatar] Zoellick and India, NGOs at Doha, Biting the hand that feeds, The power of civil society

1) OF CARROTS, STICKS AND THE INDIAN POSITION AT QATAR
2) "ALL-STAR" PROTEST TEAM AT DOHA?
3) EUROPE MOVES CLOSER TO TRADE WAR WITH US
4) REFORMING THE WTO - CRITICISMS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Thursday 23 August:[REGIONAL TRADE]:COMESA -- Trade/Social Aspects; ECOWAS & SADC to collaborate?; Who's Afraid of AGOA?; More on CER

1) JUGGLING AIMS
2) ODD COUPLE
3) CBN TASKS WABA MEMBERS ON REGIONAL INTEGRATION
4) NEW US POLICY STIMULATES TRADE WITH AFRICAN STATES
5) McDERMOTT's AGOA WILL DRIVE COUNTRIES TO DEBT
6) WILL AFRICA BENEFIT FROM THE AGOA?
7) COMMUNIQUE FROM LAST WEEK's CER TALKS
8) TOO MANY PACTS MAKE EXPORT TANGOS TICKLISH
9) GATT WATCHDOG ANNOUNCES ANTI-WTO CAMPAIGN

Friday 24 August [FfDevelopment]: Job announcement from WEDO, Debt Relief, New Bretton Woods Conference, Against Neoliberal Globalisation

) JOB ANNOUNCEMENT FROM WEDO
2) THE IMF'S & WORLD BANK'S SHAM DEBT RELIEF
3) BACK TO BRETTON WOODS
4) AGAINST NEOLIBERAL GLOBALISATION

Monday 27 August:[UN LDC3]: Apocalypse for LDCs?; Last Call from Food Security; A Tale of Two Worlds -- Diverging; Free Trade Limited

1) ADDRESS TO THIRD UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON LDCs
2) APOCALYPSE NOW
3) THE BANKERS' VISION IS LIMITED
4) THE NATURAL/DEVELOPING WORLD AND FREE TRADE
5) LEARNING FROM GENOA
6) FORGET GLOBALISATION -- AFRICA IS TOO BUSY BEING LEFT BEHIND

Tuesday 28 August [Rio +10]: World Bank and Fossil Fuels, Violence of Development, UNEP Report on World Forests, BT Crop Alert From IATP

1) THE WORLD BANK AND FOSSIL FUELS: A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
2) THE VIOLENCE OF DEVELOPMENT
3) 15 COUNTRIES HOLD KEY TO SAVING WORLD'S FORESTS
4) CANADA ESSENTIAL TO FOREST PRESERVATION
5) BT CROP ALERT FROM IATP

Wednesday 29 August [Qatar]: Africa Wants WTO Meet Deferred, GATS and Democracy, July's Qatar WTOILs Revisited, Fast Track Pitfalls

1) AFRICA WANTS WTO MEET DEFERRED
2) GATS AND DEMOCRACY
3) SUMMARY, OVERVIEW & DEVELOPMENT REPORT - QATAR: JULY 2001
4) FAST TRACK A WAY TO DUMP DEMOCRACY

Thursday 30 August:[REGIONAL TRADE]: Global Ogipoly; SADC Tops in FDI; What is APEC?; Food Security in SADC -- A Sham; Coming Closer -- New Zealand & United States?

1) KEITH RANKIN: GLOBAL OLIGOPOLY
2) GLOBAL TRADE LIBERALIZATION: THE NEXT PHASE
3) SADC MOST IMPORTANT REGION -- FDI FLOWS TO AFRICA
4) UNEQUAL "FREE TRADE" THREATENS FOOD SECURITY
5) FACT SHEET ONE: WHAT IS APEC?
6) CHILE VULNERABLE TO ARGENTINA?
7) NEW NEW ZEALAND EMBASSY UP & RUNNING IN BRAZIL
8) INFLUENTIAL US SENATORS CALL FOR TRADE AGREEMENT

Friday 31 August [FfDEVELOPMENT]:Neoliberalism Revisited: 'IMFs Four Steps to Damnation'; Globalisation Adversely Affects the Poor -- Still; Special Reasons for Lower Overseas Development Assistance

1) SUMMARY/OVERVIEW/DEVELOPMENT REPORT: FfDEVELOPMENT
2) "PRIVATIZATION OF WATER NOT "PRO-POOR", NGO's WARN
3) NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF TRADE/CAPITAL MARKET LIBERALIZATION
4) FREE TRADE CREATES WEALTH, JOBS, AND FREEDOM
5) GROWING POLARIZATION AND IMPOVERISHMENT
6) GLOBALISATION IS NOT DELIVERING FOR THE POOR
7) POOR REMAIN SHUT OUT
8) IMF NOT BOUND BY HUMAN RIGHTS CONVENTIONS
9) SPECIAL FACTORS EXPLAIN LOWER ODA