Achieving 'Green Growth' in a carbon constrained world
Jodie Keane and Gareth Potts
This Background Note assesses the options available to developing countries in a ‘carbon constrained’ world.
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The global financial crisis. Which developing countries are most at risk?
This blog is based on my new ODI Background Note: The global financial crisis and developing countries (PDF, 97kb).The global financial crisis has caused a considerable economic slowdown in developed countries such as the UK, Germany, France and the USA. The USA and UK face the greatest financial crisis since the 1930s.
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The WTO Doha round impasse: Implications for Africa
Mareike MeynThis Briefing Paper discusses the implications of the stalled Doha trade talks for African countries.
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Economic Partnership Agreements: A 'historic step' towards a 'partnership of equals'?
Development Policy Review vol. 25, iss. 5Mareike MeynThis article argues that the EPAs initialled between the EU and less than half of the ACP countries do not represent a 'historic step' in EU-ACP relations, but are the outcome of asymmetric power relations.
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Discussing Trade and Poverty in Latin America
Discussions, case studies, debates and opinions from development researchers and practitioners working on issues of trade and poverty in Latin America.
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Sobre comercio y pobreza en América Latina
Las discusiones, debates, estudios de casos y opiniones de investigadores y profesionales en el comercio y la pobreza en América Latina.
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A 'new' approach to global value chain analysis
This paper argues that current approaches to global value chain analysis in agricultural trade do not tell the full story and that a new approach may be needed.
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Collapse of the WTO trade talks: A pity, and potentially a problem, but not a disaster
Is the first WTO Director-General Peter Sutherland right to call the collapse of the trade talks a ‘disaster’? It would certainly have been better for world trade, world income, and most people in developing countries if the Doha negotiations had succeeded in producing a significant liberalisation in trade rules. -
Is the WTO no-deal a big deal?
The trade talks have collapsed over the issue of Special Safeguard Measures (or SSMs) in agriculture. This measure, which allows countries to protect specific agricultural sectors from import surges, was not even among the hottest negotiating issues. And neither India and China (the two most interested parties in the negotiations) have used SSM yet. -
Development package at the WTO: What do developing countries want from the Doha round?
Sheila Page, Massimiliano Calí and Dirk Willem te VeldeThis paper aims to summarise the interests of different developing country groups in each of the most important negotiating issues at this stage of the Doha trade round.