Recommended Sites
African Development Bank
web site provides information on its organization and its
projects. It also give access to some of its reports.
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
web site has country and topical information about member
states and its projects.
Directory
of Economic, Commodity and Development Organizations (IMF)
European Bank for Reconstruction
and Development (EBRD) web site provides information about
the bank's project by country or by sector
Group of 77 at the United Nations
web site contains major declarations and programmes of action
adopted by the Group of 77 (1997-present), press communiqués,
statements and speeches(1997-present).
Global
Trade Negotiations
is a project of the Center for International Development at
Harvard University. It covers a wide array of trade topics,
including development, agriculture, market access and regionalism.
The site provides articles, research papers, issue summaries,
and links to other websites.
Index
to Internet Trade Information Sources was developed by
the International Trade Centre. The ITC, an agency of the
UNDP operated jointly by the WTO and UNCTAD, works with developing
countries to set up trade promotion programs. The objective
of the Index is to facilitate access to relevant and reliable
sources of market information, statistics and legal information
on the Internet.
Inter-American
Development Bank (IADB) web site has information about
the organization's projects, country information, and research
products.
International
Center for Trade and Sustainable Development is
a non-govermental organization that aims to promote better
understanding of environmental issues related to trade. The
web sites provides news and analyses.
International
Development Association (part of World Bank) web site
provides information about its projects organized by country
or by topic.
Islamic Development Bank (IDB)
web site provides information about IDB's projects and a few
of its publications.
Trade
Observatory
is an excellent source for news, information and critical
views on the WTO, trade and development. There is an extensive
document center containing documents, articles and papers
from governments, NGOs, IGOs, scholars, and commercial publications.
Other resources on the site include a multimedia center with
video of speeches, events and documentaries, a calendar of
events, daily news, and a database of related web sites.
United
Nations - Regional Cooperation for Development links to
the following regional economic commissions: Economic
Commission for Africa (UNECA), Economic
and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP),
Economic Commission for Europe
(UNECE), Economic Commission
for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Economic
and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA).
UNIDO
Industrial Development Abstracts contains over
11,000 fully indexed abstracts of United Nations Industrial
Development Organization (UNIDO) documentation and includes
descriptions of major studies and reports. 1981-present, updated
monthly. The site provides information on how to obtain full
text documents.
United Nations Conference
on Trade and Development UNCTAD) web site provides full
text access to many of its reports and publications. It also
provides statistical information and information about its
many trade and development-related programs.
US Agency for International
Development (USAID) web site contains USAID polices and
information about its projects either by project or by country.
World
Bank Documents and Reports (previously known as World
Development Sources) is a searchable collection of over 6,000
World Bank reports including project appraisal reports, evaluation
studies and working papers. Most of the reports are scanned
and are available in pdf format or unformatted text.
World
Bank Trade Group web site focuses on recent and on-going
research on international trade at the World Bank Group. It
provides access to the full text of World Bank working papers
on trade from 1994 to the present as well as information on
publications available for purchase. There are also links
to training materials on trade policy topics from the World
Bank Institute.
WTO
Trade and Development Gateway provides access to information
on the WTO's work on trade and development issues, including
links to the Committee on Trade and Development, the Sub-Committee
on Least-Developed Countries and other related organizations;
specific legal provisions in the WTO Agreements regarding
developing countries; information on support for developing
countries; and instructions on retrieving development-related
documents from the online document database.
Full Text of
International Instruments
ASEAN
Free Trade Area Agreements
Charter
of Algiers (Group of 77)
Codification
of the Andean Subregional Integration (Cartagena Agreement)
8 ILM 910; entered into force October 16, 1969.
Cotonou
Agreement (EU-ACP)
Fourth
ACP-EEC Convention (Lomé IV) OJEC L229/3 (1991);
29 ILM 783, 809; entered into force September 1, 1990; duration
10 years (from March 1, 1990).
Integrated
Framework for Trade-Related Technical Assistance to Least
Developed Countries
Joint
Declaration of the Seventy-Seven Developing Countries Made
At the Conclusion of the United Nations Conference on Trade
and Development
San
Jose Declaration and Plan of Action on South-South Trade,
Investment and Finance (Group of 77)
Treaty
Establishing the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
(COMESA Treaty) 33 ILM 1067, 1072.
Government Documents
Fighting
Bribery and Corruption (OECD)
United
Nations Convention Against Corruption
U.S.
Contributions to Trade Capacity Building (September 2003)
United
States Government Initiatives to Build Trade-Related Capacity
in Developing Countries and Transitional Countries (October
2001)
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