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Occasional Paper 7: World Bank & Asian Development Bank: Carbon Trading and Climate Finance in India

India is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, yet it has played a central role in a counterproductive global climate agenda pushed the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and large corporations. India now hosts more registered greenhouse gas emission reduction projects – via …

Occasional papers 6 : climate change and China : technology, market and beyond

A report for Focus on the Global South by Dale Jiajun Wen China plays an important role of representing the interests of developing countries in the current climate change negotiations through the mechanism of 77+China. As the most important emitter in developing countries it is facing an enormous c …

Occasional paper 5 : background paper : investment liberalization in the EU-ASEAN FTA

by Ignacio Jose Minambres With the increasing importance of Investment Flows and the impossibility to get agreements for its liberalization at the multilateral level, the developed economies are pushing for its inclusion in one way or another in the bilateral trade agreements that are being negotiat …

‘Crisis and Change’ Focus on the Philippines 2008 Yearbook

MANILA, PHILIPPINES– Focus on the Global South, a Manila and Bangkok-based think tank, released its Focus on the Philippines 2008 Yearbook called ‘Crisis and Change’. The 250-page yearbook contains analyses, commentaries, and reports on key economic and political issues that took center stage in 20 …

Occasional Paper 4: BUSINESS AS USUAL: Responses within ASEAN to the Food Crisis

New power politics in Asia : briefing note on the Shanghai Cooperation Organzation

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is a regional mechanism, which was created in 2001 and consists of the following: People’s Republic of China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. It was inspired by the need to solve the border disputes lingering between the Sov …

China’s New Role in Africa and the South: A search for a new perspective

Edited by Dorothy-Grace Guerrero and Firoze Manji China’s New Role in Africa and the South: A search for a new perspective China’s global expansion is much talked about, but usually from the viewpoint of the West. This unique collection of essays, written by scholars and activists from China and the …

Water democracy: Reclaiming public water in Asia

Essay collection presented by the Reclaiming Public Water Network November 2007 CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION 1. THE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK WATER POLICY: PRIVILEGING PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENT OVER PRO-POOR ACCESS 2. LABOUR-MANAGEMENT COOPERATION: A PUP IN BENCHMARKING WATER UTILITIES IN ASIA 3. FROM BAD SE …

Annual Report 2006

The Focus Annual Report 2006 has just been released.

At the door to all the East

‘At the Door of all the East’: The Philippines in United States Military Strategy This report seeks to document and explain why and how the United States has been attempting to re-establish its military presence in the Philippines in the period beginning in 2001. Diverging from the common explanatio …