IIED Links:

Related Links:

• ATTAC - the Association for the Taxation of financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens. ATTAC is an international network of independent national and local groups in 33 countries. It promotes the idea of an international tax on currency speculation (the Tobin Tax) and campaigns to outlaw tax havens, replace pension funds with state pensions, cancel Third World debt, reform or abolish the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and, more generally, recapture the democratic space that has been lost to the financial world. ATTAC combines activism with intellectual creativity. It promotes practical economic reforms meant to tame the devastating power of the financial markets, and to favour democratic, transparent economic structures that serve the needs of ordinary people. It looks for alternatives to the dogmatic ideology of neoliberalism.

  ATTAC’s weekly International Newsletter-Sand in the Wheels- is received by 13053 subscribers and is a valuable source of both factual and more conceptual information on trade, environment and development.

• Heinrich Böll Foundation and its North-South Dialogue Program
  
  
• IATP Trade Observatory – the observatory on WTO, Globalisation, Trade and Sustainable Development of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), USA
  
  
• International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), Switzerland
  
  • ICTSD's BRIDGES Weekly Trade News Digestfocuses on trade, sustainable development and the WTO
    
  • ICTSD's BRIDGES Trade BioRes focuses on trade, sustainable development and biological resources
    
    
• Le Monde Diplomatique - This monthly newspaper is an invaluable source of critical analysis on the restructuring of the world economy and agency of different actors involved. In addition to publishing scholarly and action oriented articles on trade, society and environment, occasional theme based issues are also available on the Monde Diplomatique’s web site. e.g. a dossier on a solidarity based (rather than a market based) economy
  

  The French version of Le Monde Diplomatique is now available in 17 different languages, including English.

• TradeKnowledge Network of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Canada

• Transversales Science/Culture - This interdisciplinary group of scholars and citizens aims to rethink many of the basic assumptions of trade as we know it today in its dominant form. The magazine of the group offers many insightful debates on the costs and alternatives to ultra-liberalism and the generalized loss of meaning. A strong emphasis on political and economic philosophy is at the heart of the group’s efforts to re-imagine the nature and finalities of trade and dominant economic relations. See past articles on: www.globenet.org/transversales/transversales.html

• United Nations Division for Sustainable Development (DESA)
  

• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
  
  
• Working Group on Environment, Trade and Investment (GETI) of IUCN's Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)
  
  
• World Trade Organisation – see also theFifth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation

See also the Earthscan book: Making Global Trade Work For People by the United Nations Development Programme, Heinrich Boll Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Foundation and Wallace Global Fund. (Normal Published Price £18.95;On-Line Discounted Price £15.16 - a saving of 20%).

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