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Peter Willetts, Professor of Global Politics


 

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

  • 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
     
  • 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
     
  • 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
     
  • 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
     
  • 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

  • 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
     
  • 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
     
  • Documents on the NGO Working Group on the World Bank
              click here.
     
  • 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.
     
  • 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

  • General Assembly and Security Council resolutions in September 2001,
    in response to the terrorist attacks on the USA, including Security Council Resolution 1373 (2001) that seeks to control international financial flows.     click here.
     
  • The Charter of the United Nations
              click here for web page
              click here to download Word 6 file.
     
 

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Last updated on 22 August 2002.