Full Coverage: Globalisation

29.11.2006 Smallholder farms are both durable and integral to combating rural poverty.

29.11.2006 Rural poverty, urban migration, biotech's promise, the supermarket boom, and more.

28.11.2006 Organizado por la organización no gubernamental Observatorio de Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas y auspiciado por CEPAL. Autoridades y expertos debatirán sobre las implicancias de este fenómeno para el desarrollo de estas comunidades en América Latina.

28.11.2006 Papiya Sarkar from the Media and Communications group of the India Social Forum (ISF) writes about the seminars on globalisation and fair trade that she attended at the recently-concluded ISF. The discussions were on overcoming barriers to fair trade and making it work for the socio economic development of the marginalised sections of the population.

28.11.2006 IndiaÂ’s economic performance in the past two decades has been remarkable, but closer subregional integration would help the country and its neighbors to achieve their full economic potential, a senior ADB official told a press briefing.

24.11.2006 An interview with William I. Robinson professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he teaches and writes on global capitalism, Latin America, social change, and democracy.

24.11.2006 Contrariamente a la noción más difundida, el TLC con EEUU comprende, como aspectos fundamentales, una serie de campos, extremadamente comprensivos por sus ramificaciones e implicaciones, que van mucho más allá de las meras regulaciones relativas al intercambio comercial de bienes a través de las fronteras de los país

24.11.2006 Centad is organising its second annual ‘South Asian Conference on Trade and Development’ at the Park Hotel, New Delhi, on December 19-20, 2006.This year’s theme is ‘Multilateralism at Cross Roads: Reaffirming Development Priorities’

22.11.2006 Due to unrelenting pressure by the developed countries, the Doha negotiations have veered from their proclaimed development orientation towards a “market access” direction in which developing countries are pressurised to open up their agricultural, industrial and services sectors.

15.11.2006 Rich countries are still betraying their obligations to help poor countries protect public health. Five years on, most poor people are yet to benefit from the Doha Declaration.

15.11.2006 The Hindu

15.11.2006 The Hindu

14.11.2006

11.11.2006 Comincia domani ad Halifax, in Canada, il "Microcredit Global Summit" al quale parteciperanno, tra capi di stato, rappresentanti istituzionali e soggetti attivi nel microcredito, circa 2000 delegati provenienti da più di 100 diversi Paesi. Il Summit sarà l'occasione per discutere i progressi raggiunti e stabilire nuovi obiettivi per il 2015. Il precedente vertice di Washington del 1997 si era posto il traguardo di raggiungere con il microcredito 100 milioni di famiglie entro la fine del 2005. Alla fine del 2004 i dati di 3164 enti di microcredito riportavano la seguente situazione: 92 milioni di clienti, di cui 66 milioni poverissimi e l'83% donne. I dati del 2005 saranno resi noti ad Halifax, quando verranno lanciati i due nuovi obiettivi per il 2015: raggiungere 175 milioni di famiglie, con particolare riguardo alle donne e migliorare le condizioni di vita di 100 milioni delle famiglie più povere spostando il loro reddito sopra la soglia di un dollaro al giorno.

11.11.2006 Indian health professionals have expressed their concern over a failing public health system that threatens to erode earlier health gains. Speaking at the ISF, social activists said that inequitable global economic structure is leading to stagnant or declining health budgets. Satya Chakrapani from OneWorld reports from a seminar held by the Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA).

11.11.2006 TN Anuradha of OneWorld South Asia attends an event - "Changing Trends of Urban Water Scenario" - at the India Social Forum which discusses pertinent issues related to water.

10.11.2006 Rahul Kumar writes about the opening plenary of the India Social Forum which took off on Thursday in Indian capital New Delhi to the sound of drums, cries against globalisation and cheers for the setback that US President George Bush received in the recent elections.

10.11.2006 Himal South Asian

10.11.2006 Daily News and Analysis

10.11.2006 Food sovereignty in view of increasing bilateral trade agreements will be the focus in an INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON FOOD SOVEREIGNTY that is being organised by South Asian Network for Social and Agricultural Development (SANSAD) & Asia Pacific Network on Food Sovereignity (APNFS) on November 12 from 4 to 7 pm at M4 at the ISF.