Publication and Resources

African Civil Society Declaration on NEPAD
July 8, 2025
African civil society organizations declare their resistance to the "New Economic Partnership for Africa's Development" (Nepad), and push for demands that they think better address development, democracy, human rights and peace in Africa.  Read publication...

A Guide to the Enron Collapse
July 8, 2025 - Polaris Institute, Darren Puscas
This article provides an overall guide to understanding the Enron debacle, in a manner that broadens it from the standard, narrow financial or scandal-based story you can read in newspapers.  Read publication...

World Summit on Sustainable Development: Bali, Indonesia
July 8, 2025 - Antonio G. M. La Vina and Gretchen Hoff, World Resources Institute
This paper provides an update on the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), focusing on the outcomes of the Fourth Preparatory Committee (Prepcom IV) meeting recently held in Bali, Indonesia.  Read publication...

Update on Citizens’ Campaigns on the FTAA
July 3, 2025 - Karen Hansen-Kuhn, ART/DGAP
Representatives of the Hemispheric Social Alliance (HSA) and other social movements met recently in Quito, Ecuador for the purpose of exchanging information on their respective popular-education campaigns on the potential impacts of and alternatives to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). They also discussed the coordination of those campaigns at the hemispheric level and developed plans around a major civil-society forum to be held parallel to the official meeting of trade ministers on the FTAA in late October.  Read publication...

Greenwash + 10
January 24, 2025 - Kenny Bruno, CorpWatch
The 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro represented a high point of hope for the international community in general and the United Nations in particular. The Rio Summit led to a series of challenging negotiations whose purpose was to protect the earth and improve life for its most impoverished inhabitants. Unfortunately, that purpose was undermined by the Summit's failure to confront corporate power in any meaningful way.  Read publication...

Enron's Pawns: How Public Institutions Bankrolled Enron's Globalization Game
June 18, 2025 - Jim Vallette and Daphne Wysham, Institute for Policy Studies
Report by the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network explores how the now-fallen giant's rise to global prominence depended upon close financial relationships with U.S. agencies, the World Bank, and other government institutions.  Read publication...

MAKING TRADE WORK FOR WOMEN: Opportunities& Obstacles
June 18, 2025 - Marceline White, Women's EDGE
In this primer, we explore why and where women may be affected differently, and we offer pragmatic, feasible "fixes" that the U.S. could adopt to become better global partner.  Read publication...

The Relative Impact of Trade Liberalization on Developing Countries
June 11, 2025
In recent years, new trade agreements have often been promoted on the basis of their potential benefit to developing countries... When the benefits and costs of continued liberalization... are evaluated according to standard economic research, it is not clear that the developing countries as a group are facing a net gain.  Read publication...

Social Movements and Regional Integration in the Americas
June 18, 2025 - Beverly Bell, Center for Economic Justice
This paper explores the status of cross-border social movements in the Americas in an era of globalization.  Read publication...

The Policy Roots of Economic Crisis and Poverty
May 21, 2025 - Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network (SAPRIN)
A multi-country participatory assessment based on the results of a joint World Bank/Civil Society/Government Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Initaitive (SAPRI) and the Citizen's Assessment of Structural Adjustment (CASA)  Read publication...

Managing the Invisible Hand - Markets, Farmers and International Trade
April 1, 2025 - Sophia Murphy, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
The current global agriculture trade agreement will not succeed in helping farmers and broad-based economic development until it addresses market power by transnational corporations, finds a new report released today by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.  Read publication...

Implications of wto negotiations for biodiversity
April 1, 2025 - friends of the earth international
WTO negotiations have major implications for the Convention on Biological Diversity and its objective to protect global biological diversity.  Read publication...