WTOIL Contents -- HTML Format: September Edition

ICDA WTO Impact List: September Edition

Monday 3 September:[UN LDC3]: WTO Choses Tanzania to Represent LDCs; Where is the Poor at the WTO?; More on Privatisation

1) BLACKS SUFFER WORST UNDER GLOBALISATION
2) THE CYNICAL DYNAMIC
3) WTO PICKS TANZANIA TO REPRESENT LDCs
4) BE FAIR TO THE POOR: BOX OFF FREE TRADE
5) ROW AS WTO LOBBYISTS KEEP OUT POOR
6) PRIVATIZATION EQUALS POVERTY

Tuesday 4 September[Rio +10]:Sustainability matters; Sleeping with the enemy; Klaus Schwab interview; No vacation from globalization;German nuclear update; Fidel speaks.

1) SUSTAINABILITY MATTERS!
2) SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY
3) THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM IS AN NGO, TOO!
4) NO VACATION FROM GLOBALIZATION
5) GERMAN NUCLEAR UPDATE
6) FIDEL SPEAKS!

Wednesday 5 September [Qatar]: Oxfam Appeal Against US TRIPs Policy, CAIRNS Group on Route to Compromise, Farm Subsidies, Supachai Prepares His Ground

1) US TRADE POLICY ROBS POOR PEOPLE OF THEIR HEALTH!
2) CAIRNS GROUP LIKELY TO SCALE BACK WTO DECLARATION DEMANDS
3) TREATIES MAY CURB FARMERS' SUBSIDIES
4) DEREGULATION: HIGH PRICES, BAD SERVICE
5) NEW ROUND OF WTO TRADE TALKS ALMOST CERTAIN: FUTURE CHIEF

Thursday 6 September:[REGIONAL TRADE]: Regional Trade Agreements -- Bases/Strategies/Tactics; What is motivating Regional Blocs?; SADC/ECOWAS; US-Mercosur Talks

1) REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS -- BASES; STRATEGIES; TACTICS
2) CI-ROAF AND TRADE
3) WHAT's IN A NAME?
4) GLOBALISATION & COMPETITIVENESS OF REGIONAL BLOCS
5) REGIONALISM --> GLOBALISM: SADC & ECOWAS COMPARED
6) FIRST US-MERCOSUR TALKS
7) CAIRNS GROUP UNITED IN BUILD-UP TO DOHA

Friday 7 September [FfDEVELOPMENT]: Untying Aid, World Bank Transparency, Perilous Prosperity, Jospin Makes a Case for Tobin Tax

1) UNTIED AID GOES FURTHER
2) WORLD BANK: NEW TRANSPARENCY POLICY ANNOUNCED
3) PERILOUS PROSPERITY
4) FRENCH PM SPEAKS OUT FOR SPECULATION TAX

Monday 10 September[UN LDC3]:"Nothing Inevitable About Globalisation"; LDC Conference Revisited; More on Food Security; Still Gaga about Globalisation!

1) LOTS OF PUDDING BUT NO EATING
2) WTO RULES AND FOOD SECURITY
3) GLOBALISATION IS GOOD FOR US
4) EFFECTS OF TRADE LIBERALISATION ON GLOBAL FOOD OUTLOOK
5) UN AGENCY BACKS GM FOOD CROPS

Tuesday 11 September[RIO+10]:Biotech and the developing world;Bush at UN;US-EU biotech food dispute;Environmentalism

1) SUMMARY/OVERVIEW/DEVELOPMENT REPORT: RIO+10
2) BIOTECH AND THE DEVELOPING WORLD
3) UN: GEORGE BUSH, COME ON DOWN!
4) U.S. CHALLENGES EU'S BIOTECH FOOD STANDARDS
5) TENSION RISES OVER EU PLAN ON GM FOODS
6) AUSTRIAN NGOS URGE RIO+10 COMMITMENT
7) UK "IGNORES" ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS OF POOR
8) ENVIRONMENTALISM IS NOT JUST FOR TREE-HUGGERS

Wednesday 12 September [Qatar]: No Consensus in Mexico, European Greens Criticise Doha Agenda, A Message from the Global South

1) INDIA: NO CONSENSUS IN MEXICO
2) EUROPEAN GREENS CRITICISE DOHA HIDDEN AGENDA
3) A MESSAGE FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH

Thursday 13 September:[REGIONAL TRADE]: Special on World Trade Center Attack -- Commentary/Economic Outlook

1) COSATU CONDOLENCE MESSAGE TO US TRADE UNION
2) FACING ADVERSITY
3) RECESSION MAY HIT WORLD ECONOMY AFTER US ATTACKS
4) CRUELTY OF A CRUSHED AND HUMILIATED PEOPLE
5) SHOCK WAVES

Friday 14 September [FfDEVELOPMENT]: Uncertainty over IFI meetings, Why IFI's incite protest, Tobin tax, Arab states get less aid, Yugoslavia's debt

1) WORLD FINANCIAL ORGANISATIONS CONSIDER CANCELLING MEETINGS
2) THE IMF AND WORLD BANK HURT POOR COUNTRIES AND UNDERMINE DEMOCRACY
3) KOHLER SAYS IMF MAY LOOK AGAIN AT TOBIN TAX
4) ARAB STATES RECEIVE LESS AID THAN OTHERS
5) YUGOSLAVIA'S EXTERNAL DEBT: A SPECIAL CASE

Monday 17 September[UN LDC3]:Mammon Mad; UN and Africa children; World Bank WDR2002 report preview; New UNCTAD report.

1) MAMMON MAD
2) UN AND THE AFRICAN CHILD
3) WORLD BANK WDR 2002 PREVIEW
4) NEW UNCTAD REPORT ON AFRICA DEVELOPMENT

Tuesday 18 September[RIO+10]:_Nitin Desai interview; Wolfensohn on poverty; Kyoto on my mind; Lomborg exposed; UNEP on International Ozone Day.

1) UN's NITIN DESAI - INTERVIEW
2) WOLFENSOHN ON POVERTY AND INEQUALITY
3) KYOTO ON MY MIND...
4) WRONG, MR. LOMBORG!
5) UNEP ON INTERNATIONAL OZONE DAY

Thursday 20 September [Qatar]: Doha perspectives, China and the WTO, TRIPs

1) WTO AND DOHA: A DEVELOPING COUNTRY PERSPECTIVE
2) CHINA'S ADMISSION WILL CHANGE WTO
3) WELCOME TO THE FAMILY, CHINA
4) HEALTH BEFORE WEALTH

Friday 21 September 2001 [Regional Trade/ FfD]: US "carrots" Indonesia for Anti-Terrorist Coalition, NAFTA under fire, FfD, Zedillo report, Less visibility - less responsiveness

1) US TO ELIMINATE DUTIES ON SOME INDONESIAN GOODS
2) ANNOUNCING NEW REPORT ON NAFTA CORPORATE CASES
3) FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT : NEW DOCUMENTS
4) REACTIONS TO ZEDILLO REPORT
5) A VIRTUAL MEETING OF MINDS

Tuesday 25 September[RIO+10]:World food trade; Theodore Keel interview; Zimbabwe logging; UNED online; IIED papers on WSSD; UNDP prep com info.

1) WORLD FOOD TRADE
2) THEODORE KEEL INTERVIEW
3) ZIMBABWE LOGGING PROJECT
4) UNED EARTH SUMMIT 2002 ONLINE
5) UNED ONLINE DISCUSSION
6) WSSD BRIEFING PAPERS BY IIED
7) UNDP PREP COMS

Wednesday 26 September [Qatar]: Doha or no Doha?, SOD Report August, The Attack on Civic Activism

1) PUSH FOR NEW ROUND STILL ON, WTO SAYS
2) SUMMARY, OVERVIEW AND DEVELOPMENT REPORT: QATAR, AUGUST
3) THE NEW BACKLASH

Thursday 27 September:[REGIONAL TRADE]: Nigeria-UK Trade Falls; Niger/Nigeria on the Up; Wooing the ACP for WTO; ECOWAS & EU Deliberate

1) NIGERIA-UK TRADE DECLINES BY FOURTEEN PERCENT
2) GOOD NEIGHBOURS
3) FEAR GROWS NZ WILL MISS OUT ON AUS/US FREE TRADE PACT
4) PASCAL LAMY TO RALLY SUPPORT OF ACP COUNTRIES
5) ECOWAS, EUROPEAN UNION FINE TUNE AGENDA FOR MINISTERIAL MEETING

Friday 28 September:[FfDEVELOPMENT]: World Bank Meetings Cancelled; Japanese Say ODA is Important; Argentina -- Unwitting Sacrificial Lamb

1) WORLD BANK-IMF ANNUAL MEETINGS CANCELLED
2) INTERIM REPORT OF THE SECOND CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE ON ODA REFORM
3) ARGENTINA TO BE SACRIFICED ON FREE MARKET ALTAR