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Documents and Speeches on the
Politics of International Economics
This collection is intended to be a useful archive of important primary materials. The text of the documents has not been amended, but usually some copy-editing of the lay-out has been done.
In any use of these materials, please acknowledge the source as being
www.staff.city.ac.uk/p.willetts/PIE-DOCS/INDEX.HTM
The World Trade Organisation
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Make Trade Fair
A campaign launched on 11 April 2002 by Oxfam International "to ensure that trade makes a real difference in the fight against global poverty". A major report, Rigged Rules and Double Standards: trade, globalisation and the fight against poverty underpins the campaign.
Oxfam's web page for the campaign click here
Report summary web page click here
To download an Executive Summary, single chapters or the full report click here
To receive campaign updates click here
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For Whose Benefit?
A statement of principles, as issued on 10 June 2002, to launch the Trade Justice Movement -
The statement as a web page click here
The statement as a Word 6 document click here
Trade Justice Movement's Home Page click here
Trade Justice Movement's membership, as of July 2002 click here
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Speech by President Clinton on 1 December 1999
in Seattle, at a luncheon for ministers attending the Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation -
click here for web page
click here to download Word 6 file
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Notes on a Presentation by Dr Supachai, WTO Director-General Designate on 5 July 2001
"The Global Trading System: Where do we go from here?" at a Wilton Park conference, The World Trade Agenda -
click here for web page
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Notes on a Presentation by Dr Supachai, WTO Director-General Designate on 11 July 2002
"The Doha Development Agenda" at a Wilton Park conference, Prospects for the New Trade Round -
click here for web page
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
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Speech by Gordon Brown, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer
to the Federal Reserve Bank, New York on 16 November 2001, calling for doubling of aid and reform of the international financial system.
click here for web page
click here to download Word 6 file
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Responses by the IMF to Joseph Stiglitz
after the publication of his book Globalization and Its Discontents, in July 2002
click here for web page
click here to download Word 6 file
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Documents on the NGO Working Group on the World Bank
click here.
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Letter from InterAction, signed by 22 NGOs, to the President of the World Bank, 14 April 2000
InterAction is a US network of NGOs that work in international relief and development. The letter disasssociated these NGOs from the street demonstrations outside the Bank-Fund Spring Meetings and offered support for "recent positive directions taken by the Bank".
click here.
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E-Mail from Drop the Debt to its supporters, 3 August 2001
The message reports on the closure of the Drop the Debt campaign and on its participation in the demonstrations at the summit of the Group of Eight industrialised countries in Genoa in July 2001.
click here.
The United Nations
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