By Nicola Bullard It has taken two years for Australia to feel the impact of the Asian financial crisis. This may seems a strange comment given that yesterday’s financial pages were filled with unabashed optimism about the...
Read MoreBy Aileen Kwa As civil society groups from all over the world are gearing up for their organised demonstrations at Seattle opposing a new round, developing governments, too, have been looking at what shape the negotiations at...
Read MoreBy Aileen Kwa As civil society groups from all over the world are gearing up for their organised demonstrations at Seattle opposing a new round, developing governments, too, have been looking at what shape the negotiations at...
Read MoreBy Nicola Bullard The G7 proposals for strengthening the international financial architecture unveiled at the annual summit in Cologne reinforce the power of the world’s leading economies and are another nail in the coffin...
Read MoreA series of Workshops at the Hague Appeal for Peace May 11-13, 1999 Organised by The Transnational Institute (Netherlands) Focus on the Global South (Thailand) European Network Against Arms Trade (Netherlands) American Friends...
Read MorePresentation by Shalmali Guttal, Focus on the Global South at the conference: The Role of Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) in the process of Development in Vietnam May 5-6, 1999, Hanoi, Republic of VietnamTo begin, I...
Read MoreBy Aileen Kwa Too often, we hear people talk about globalisation as if it were an inevitable occurance. I have even heard some folks ascribe to it as a train that has rolled out of the station at high speed, leaving the rest of...
Read MoreBY NICOLA BULLARD WITH WALDEN BELLO AND KAMAL MALHOTRAIntroductionTaming the Tigers is a contribution to the debate over Asia’s economic crisis. In particular it explores the actions and motives of one of the key...
Read MoreIVANICA VODANOVICH Honorary Research Fellow, University of Auckland, New Zealand INTRODUCTION `Security dilemmas are not acts of God: they are the effects of practice'. This comment by Wendt (1995:77), encapsulates one of...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello GENEVA – During his State of the Union address on January 20, President Bill Clinton announced his support for new negotiations in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) beginning in late 1999. But whether...
Read MoreBy Aileen Kwa 1. Towards the 1999 Review2. How the AoA Instituted Unfair Competition: Market Access; Domestic Support; Export Subsidy; Due Restraint Provision; Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures3. Negotiating for...
Read MoreBy Chanida Chanyapate Bamford The current economic crisis has brought vindication for a small number of Thai farmers (estimated at around one thousand households) linked together in an alternative agriculture network who have...
Read MoreBy Aileen Kwa Non-PapersAIE/1 Administration of Tariff Quotas – Australia (13 May 1997)AIE/2 Circumvention of Export Subsidy Commitments – US (16 May 1997) US says that at least 5 members have reported violations of...
Read MoreBy Aileen Kwa and Walden Bello ; The Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) is one of the most significant agreements negotiated in the Uruguay Round. As with the other Uruguay Round Agreements, it came into effect in 1995 under the new...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello ; After seeing Steven Spielberg's syrupy tribute to Yankee patriotism, Saving Private Ryan, I told myself that, surely, I could manage something better on the Asian financial crisis. Anyway, here's the...
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