The third section of Creating a World Without Poverty details Muhammad Yunus' vision for creating social businesses and how they will eliminate poverty. Yunus recaps some of the hoops that had to be jumped through before Grameen Danone could start making high-nutrition, low-cost yogurt in Bangladesh. Capital...
This paper reports on the findings from a major international research project investigating the poverty impacts of a potential Doha Development Agenda DDA. It combines in a novel way the results from several strands of research. Intensive analysis of the DDA Framework Agreement pays particularly close attention to potential reforms...
In this paper, the author examines whether output contraction associated with cyclical output fluctuations and economic crises has an asymmetric effect on poverty. He identifies four potential sources of asymmetry, expectations and confident factors, credit rationing at the firm level, borrowing constraints at the household level, and the " labor...
LIMA AFP — Leaders from Latin America and the European Union discussed ways of tackling poverty and climate change, while struggling with differences over trade, at a summit in Peru Friday. Some 50 leaders attended the event under heavy security, including European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso, Spanish...
LIMA AFP — EU and Latin American leaders vowed to do more to further trade between their regions and tackle global warming and poverty as they wrapped up a summit late Friday in the Peruvian capital Lima. The 50 heads of state and government pledged in a joint...
The spirited defense of the North American Free Trade Agreement by President Bush and his Mexican counterpart in New Orleans recently ignored an inconvenient fact -- the annual number of undocumented immigrants arriving in the USA from Mexico has risen dramatically since that trade agreement's inception ("Bush defends free-trade policy,"...
A meeting of African civil society organizations and trade officials in Cape Town, South Africa, at the end of February called for continued and increased resistance to the introduction of Economic Partnership Agreements EPAs--free trade agreements between the European Union EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. Thirty-five countries have...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters is facing accusations of being aGovernment "puppet" after appearing to soften his long-heldopposition to a free- trade deal with China. In Parliament yesterday, the New Zealand First leader defendedBeijing's economic reforms and said freeing up trade with China washelping to lift millions out of poverty....
Byline: Carmen Gentile, THE WASHINGTON TIMES MIAMI - It has been just over a year since Daniel Ortega - the one-time guerrilla leader considered by Washington to be a menace in Central America - resumed the presidency of an impoverished Nicaragua, a post...
The Tuesday Book GANGLEADER FOR A DAY By Sudhir Venkatesh ALLEN LANE, Pounds 18.99 Order for Pounds 17.09 (free p&p) on 08700 798 897 The publisher of Sudhir Venkatesh's Gang Leader for a Day is trying to flog it by its association with...
ABOUT THE Feb. 20 Cuba op-ed, "It's time to end embargo and reach out to Cuba:" There was and still is a reason for sanctions. The unrelenting propaganda has been that Cuban people suffer from the U.S. embargo of food and medicine,...
The Monday Book SO SPIRITED A TOWN: VISIONS AND VERSIONS OF LIVERPOOL By Nicholas Murray LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY PRESS, Pounds 12.95 Order (free p&p) on 0870 079 8897 In 1797, the Rev William Bagshaw Stevens arrived at Liverpool by sea and marvelled at the...
Byline: Peter Parisi, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Much of the news that comes out of sub-Saharan Africa routinely involves civil wars, poverty, famine and government corruption, but "there's a lot of promise in Africa," says Karol Boudreaux, lead researcher for Enterprise Africa. ...
A Press editorial (Nov 28) makes a deplorable attack on theCommonwealth, asking, "What is it good for?" The Press and our pathetic foreign minister tend to support apolicy of sucking up to an over-aggressive America, right or wrong.We support a probably unwinnable war in Afghanistan, which isproving a training...
From the Slave Trade to 'Free' Trade: How Trade Undermines Democracy and Justice in Africa Edited by Patrick Burnett and Firoze Manji 170 pages, Oxford and Nairobi: Fahamu--Networks for Social Justice, 2007 At the start of the 21st century, anyone wishing to advocate...
THE ECONOMY OF salvation" is an ancient phrase used by everyone from the Eastern Orthodox theologians of old to pioneer Pentecostal preacher Phoebe Palmer to thinkers across the Christian spectrum today. Technically, it refers to divine stewardship, God's "household management" oikonomia, but also to elements of trade: God's gift, our...
President Bush Urges Congress to Pass Pending Free Trade Agreements with Peru, Colombia, Panama, and South Korea MIAMI -- Today, President Bush will address the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce and call on Congress to pass pending free trade agreements with Peru, Colombia, Panama, and South Korea as...
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Katherine Hoyt, +011-506-864-3449 Costa Rica, or BurkeStansbury, +1-718 832-9399 or burke@cispes.org, both of the StopCAFTA Coalition WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Stop CAFTACoalition announces the release of DR-CAFTA Year Two: Trends andImpacts, its second report on the effects of the U.S.-DominicanRepublic-Central American Free Trade...
AFRICAN UNITY: South African President Thabo Mbeki c greets Angotan President Edwardo Dosantos r and Namibia President Hifikepunye Pohamba during the 27th Southern African Development Community SADC meeting in Zambia, host nation for the summit. SADC is comprised of 14 southern African nations working to achieve, peace, alleviate poverty and...
ON THURSDAY, the Bush administration announced the launch of talks aimed at a free-trade area with South Korea. From extreme poverty 40 years ago, South Korea has risen to be the 12th-largest economy in the world; if the negotiators succeed, they will create the biggest free-trade zone since the North...
