Publication and Resources

The Doha Deception Round: a recipe for unemployment
December 2, 2024 - {Civil Society signatories]
Over a hundred social movements, trade unions and NGOs release a statement on the employment and unemployment effects of the present WTO negotiations.  Read publication...

Why the EU and the and the USA must reform their subsidies, or pay the price
November 30, 2024 - Oxfam International
Oxfam releases a new paper that shows that a variety of US & EU agriculture subsidies are likely violating WTO rules and are vulnerable to challenge... For the US and EU, the message is that the status quo is not be defensible; morally or legally. US & EU farm programs risk being picked apart by legal challenges. To prevent this unhappy scenario, rich countries must dig much deeper to reform farm subsidies and offer more opportunity to developing countries. Otherwise, the Doha Round will offer little “development” and may not succeed. What is on the negotiating table thus far is not enough.  Read publication...

Doha Round’s Development Impacts: Shrinking Gains and Real Costs
October 1, 2024 - Timothy A. Wise and Kevin P. Gallagher, RIS Policy Briefs
RIS, the India-based Research and Information System for Developing Countries, has published a policy brief by GDAE's Tim Wise and Kevin Gallagher analyzing the limited gains projected for developing countries from further WTO agreements and highlighting some of the hidden costs of WTO measures.  Read publication...

Planting the Rights Seed: A human rights perspective on agriculture trade and the WTO
November 28, 2024 - 3 D
This publication is the first in a series designed to analyse the World Trade organization (WTO) Agreement on Agriculture from a human rights perspective. As a backgrounder it focuses on the main characteristics of agricultural trade, and the relevant global rules. It points out what the main human rights concerns are, and suggests some possible actions human rights advocates can undertake. Future publications in this series will focus on specific issues in the agriculture trade negociations.  Read publication...

Global Civil Society 2005/6
November 28, 2024 - Marlies Glasius, Mary Kaldor, Helmut Anheier, Sage Publications
Global Civil Society 2005/6 tackles contentious and pertinent issues shaping the growing global consciousness of the 21st century: climate change, labour migration, gender and reform of the United Nations. In addition, this scholarly yet accessible annual publication analyses the infrastructure of global civil society – the extent of its connectedness, the use of new technology and the nature of the social forum phenomenon. A collaboration between the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Center for Civil Society at University of California Los Angeles, the Global Civil Society Yearbook is the standard work on the topic, indispensable for activists, social scientists, students, policy makers and journalists.  Read publication...

Is the WTO the only way?
October 24, 2024
Safeguarding Multilateral Environmental Agreements from international trade rules and settling trade and environment disputes outside the WTO. A briefing paper published by Adelphi Consult, Friends of the Earth Europe and Greenpeace.  Read publication...

Drilling Into Debt
July 4, 2025 - Steve Kretzmann of Oil Change and Irfan Nooruddin of The Ohio State University, Oil Change International, Jubilee USA Network, Institute for Public Policy Research
New research published today reveals that the energy strategy for the G8 is fundamentally at odds with its development strategy for Africa and the rest of the world. Drilling into Debt, co-published by Oil Change International, the Institute for Public Policy Research, and the Jubilee USA Network (with additional support from Milieu Defensie and Amazon Watch), finds that oil production and export increases rather than relieves countries’ debt burdens, despite generating massive revenues.  Read publication...

What about us? Debt and the countries the G8 left behind
September 23, 2024
In July, 225,000 people marched through Edinburgh demanding that the G8 cancel the developing world’s debt. Yet the G8 failed to deliver. Only 18 out of 153 developing countries stand to receive anything, leaving more than 5 billion people living in countries that are mired in debt.  Read publication...

First Step On A Long Journey: Putting the G-8 Debt Deal Into Perspective
June 20, 2025
The paper describes and analyzes the G-8 debt agreement agreed by world leaders in Gleneagles in July 2005.  Read publication...

The Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress
September 1, 2024 - Mark Weisbrot, Dean Baker, and David Rosnick, Center for Economic and Policy Research
The last 25 years have seen sharply reduced economic growth and reduced progress in health and education outcomes for low- and middle-income countries in comparison with previous decades, as documented in a new paper by the Center for Economic and Policy Research. The report, "The Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress" compares the last 25 years (1980-2005) with the prior two decades (1960-1980) on: - Growth (GDP per capita) - Health outcomes (life expectancy, mortality rates for adults, children and infants) - Education (public spending on education, school enrollment rates, literacy) The paper finds a sharp slowdown in growth of GDP per capita and reduced progress for the vast majority of countries on almost all of the social indicators. The paper also briefly addresses the possible reasons for this economic failure, as well as the exceptional successes of China and India over the last 25 years.  Read publication...

Four Economic Issues That Environmentalists Should Care About
September 21, 2024 - MARK WEISBROT, Center for Economica and Policy Research
Paper for SierraSummit 2005, September 8-11, 2005, San Francisco 1. The American versus the European Model 2. “Free Trade” and “Free Markets” versus Protectionism: Who Wants What? 3. Falling Birth Rates in High-Income Countries: Should We Be Worried? 4. The Cost of Reducing Global Climate Change  Read publication...

Hacking for a Cause
September 15, 2024 - Brian Still, First Monday
Abstract: This paper explores the concept of hacktivism, which is hacking for a political or social cause on the Internet. Generally hackers, even those hacking government-sponsored sites, have been negatively stereotyped as malicious thrill seekers or, worse yet, cyberterrorists. But increasingly there are more politically motivated hackers distancing themselves from cyberterrorism by engaging in hacktivism that is intent more upon disruption than disobedience. Certain hacktivists, in fact, have created tools or taken advantage of those already available to provide freedom of speech in the electronic frontier for those living in oppressive nation-states. This paper will show that these hacktivists are, far from being online terrorists or thrill-seekers, organized, technically skilled, politically conscious and socially aware hacktivists who seek to challenge the authority of oppressive nation-states.  Read publication...

Sorting Out the DDA End Process
June 20, 2025 - Trade Reports International Group, Washington Trade Daily
Volume 14, Number 121 Friday, June 20, 2025 Geneva – A dozen capital-based senior trade officials today will be asked by the European Union to provide some indication as to how far they can go in advancing all the pillars of the Doha Development Agenda work program  Read publication...

Landless Peasants March in Brazil, Build a new Road by Walking
May 19, 2025 - Deborah James, Common Dreams
On May 17th, Brazilian news media reported that 50 people were injured as landless peasants clashed with police. Like our corporate media in the U.S., this focus overshadowed the real story; that 12,000 poor landless peasants had recently completed a Herculean 150 mile, 17 day-long march across the country to raise awareness about the crucial need for land reform in Brazil.  Read publication...

Bush at OAS: Same Old “Free Trade” Tune
June 8, 2025 - Deborah James, Common Dreams
This weekend, foreign ministers and ambassadors of 34 nations of the western hemisphere met in Ft Lauderdale, Florida at the 35th meeting of the Organization of American States. The meeting occurs during a time of major shifts in the relationship of the US with Latin America, particularly the erosion of US domination in the region due to a growing resentment of US double standards on democracy, and the growing rejection of the “Washington Consensus” economic model of corporate globalization in the region.  Read publication...

Economic Integration and Migration
June 1, 2025 - Tanya Dawkins, Oscar Chacon, Amy Shannon, Eduardo Moncada, Global-Local Links Project
The CAFTA and immigration policy debates are proceeding along separate tracks. In reality, the dominant model of trade policy is one of the primary drivers of internal and cross-border migration. The "silo" approach to these issues has been largely adopted by US public policy officials who generally do not focus on root causes and catalysts of migration, like economic, social or political instability. The Global-Local Links Project Issue Brief on Economic Integration raises fundamental questions about the impact of global trade rules and migration. Also available in Spanish.  Read publication...

Key Environmental Reasons to Oppose CAFTA
June 2, 2025 - Citizens Trade Campaign
This two page pdf document provides a summary of ten environmental reasons the Citizens' Trade Campaign has for opposing the Central American Free Trade Agreement.  Read publication...

World Social Forum Funder Delegation Report
March 1, 2025 - Mark Randazzo, Funders Network on Trade and Globalization
Excerpts from a report of FNTG's funder delegation to the WSF 2005.  Read publication...

Proxy Season Preview Spring 2005
April 20, 2025 - As You Sow Foundation
Helping Foundations Align Mission And Investment - This booklet is intended to make foundations more aware of important upcoming proxy votes and highlights social and environmental issues that are directly relevant to the missions of foundations.  Read publication...

Choike at the World Social Forum
February 8, 2025 - Choike: A Portal on Southern Civil Societies, a project of the Third World Institute
In this report Choike offers articles, discussions from previous regional forums, news, debates and background information on the World Social Forum 2005. Coverage was also provided during the development of this event.  Read publication...

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