economics
Le programme de Doha pour le développement visait à rééquilibrer des décennies de règles de concurrence déloyales dans l'agriculture et à répondre aux besoins des pays en développement. Au lieu de cela, les négociations ont trahi cette promesse. Ce programme commercial est devenu une négociation d'accès...
The World Trade Organization's Doha Development Round was meant to rebalance decades of unfair rules in agriculture and address the needs of developing countries. Instead, the negotiations have betrayed this promise. The WTO’s trade Round has become a 'market access' negotiation, in which developing countries are expected to give disproportionately more...
The World Trade Organization's Doha Development Round was meant to rebalance decades of unfair rules in agriculture and address the needs of developing countries. Instead, the negotiations have betrayed this promise. The WTO’s trade Round has become a 'market access' negotiation, in which developing countries are expected to give disproportionately more and will receive little but...
This year alone, as a result of the economic crisis, between 50-100 million more people will be trapped in poverty, scraping by on less than US$1.25 a day. This means millions more families forced to make impossible choices between buying life saving medicines, or the cost of sending their girls to school, or finding food for the next week.
The G20 in April this year promised...
For countries rich in minerals and hydrocarbons, natural resources should provide an essential source of financing for development. However, in many cases, exploitation of such resources is linked to poverty, inequality, poor public services, and stunted economic growth.
Revenues from extractive industries represent a real opportunity as a complementary source of financing for...
More than a million people work in the UK social care sector – in residential care homes, or providing care to people in their own homes. Care workers, particularly those employed through agencies and gangmasters1, are extremely vulnerable to exploitation in this low-paid, low-status sector – and migrant workers are often the most vulnerable.
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Western writers have often projected the image of Bhutan as an isolated country, a kind of autarchic mountainous island. This article is an attempt to show that, in fact, Bhutan carried out a substantial trade with her southern neighbours – Bengal (Cooch Bihar) and Assam (Kamrup) – at least from the 17th century, if not earlier. This trade is documented in British reports and...
The process of economic modernisation involves urbanisation, industrialisation, secularisation, media participation, education, and democratisation. Other changes include the adoption of scientific technology and market economy resulting in a fundamental shift in people's values, attitudes and expectations as a response to the changing economic and social circumstances. In the case of Bhutan,...
The formulation of natural resource management policy generally involves science, socio-economic environment and legal framework. The thrust of the management policy is to derive maximum benefits from the natural resources while at the same time ensuring that the ecological integrity is not compromised. The basic scientific process elements such as ecological stability, resistance levels,...
The author focuses on is the way that orthodox economic policies can erode and destroy the happiness of a society and its people. It also outlines a range of economic policies and ethics that have the potential to provide a structure within which GNH might be more effectively created. This is by avoiding some of the mistakes of orthodoxy, and considering alternative ‘New Economic’...
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