THIRD WORLD NETWORK'S PUBLICATIONS

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TWN Environment and Development Series

TWN Biotechnology & Biosafety Series

• Managing Financial Instability in Emerging Markets: A Keynesian Perspective
• Bonn News Updates and Climate Briefings
• The Current Global Financial Turmoil and Asian Developing Countries
• Is Industrial Policy Relevant in the 21st Century?
• Towards Full and Decent Employment
• Growth Divergences: Explaining Differences in Economic Performance
• Bali News Updates and Climate Briefing
• THE CATCH: Perspectives in Benefit Sharing
• The WTO's Doha Negotiations: An Assessment
• The Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Agriculture in Developing Countries: The Experience of Ghana
• Potential Socio-Economic, Cultural and Ethical Impacts of GMOs: Prospects for Socio-Economic Impact Assessment
• The Resistible Rise of Market Fundamentalism: Rethinking Development Policy in an Unbalanced World
• Patents, Compulsory Licences and Access to Medicines: Some Recent Experiences
• Globalisation, Liberalisation, and Protectionism: The Global Framework Affecting Rural Producers in Developing Countries
• Global Rules and Markets: Constraints Over Policy Autonomy in Developing Countries
• Unmasking the new green revolution in Africa
• VOICES OF THE EARTH: From Savar to Cuenca
• The 'Singapore Issues' in the WTO: Evolution and Implications for Developing Countries
• Debt and Conditionality: Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative and Opportunities for Expanding Policy Space
• FLAT WORLD, BIG GAPS: Economic Liberalization, Globalization, Poverty & Inequality
• The WTO’s DOHA negotiations and impasse: A development perspective
• POLICY MATTERS: Economic and Social Policies to Sustain Equitable Development
• International Finance and Development
• Genetic Engineering and Omitted Health Research: Still No Answers to Ageing Questions
• The EAST ASIAN Development Experience
• Does Trade Openness Favour or Hinder Industrialization and Development?
• THE TIGRAY EXPERIENCE: A Success Story in Sustainable Agriculture
• Towards an Alternative Perspective on Trade and Industrial Policies
• Turkey and the IMF: Macroeconomic Policy, Patterns of Growth and Persistent Fragilities
• The WTO Negotiations on Non-Agricultural Market Access: A Development Perspective
• Reforming the IMF: Back to the Drawing Board
• Imports by and Exports to Countries with Insufficient or No Manufacturing Capacities in the Pharmaceutical Sector
• Intellectual Property, Competition and Development
• Trade, Growth and Industrialisation: Issues, Experiences
• Development Issues in the WTO in the Post-July Package Period: Myth or Reality?
• The Commodities Crisis and the Global Trade in Agriculture: Problems and Proposals
• Implications of Some WTO Rules on the Realisation of the MDGs
• The Malaysian Experience in Financial-Economic Crisis Management
• The WTO Negotiations on Industrial Tariffs: What is At Stake for Developing Countries
• The Current Negotiations in the WTO Options, Opportunities and Risks for Developing Countries
• WTO/TRIPS Agreement and Access to Medicines: Appropriate Policy Responses
• Structural Adjustment: The Policy Roots of Economic Crisis, Poverty and Inequality
• Reclaiming Development: An Alternative Economic Policy Manual
• Effects of Agricultural Liberalisation: Experiences of Rural Producers in Developing Countries
• Compulsory licensing: Models for state practices in developing countries, access to medicine and compliance with the WTO TRIPS accord
• AIDS: In search of a social solution
• Emerging Technologies: Genetic Engineering and Biological Weapons
• Biosafety, Biosecurity and Bioweapons
• Biodiversity, traditional knowledge and rights of indigenous peoples
• Implementation issues again off WTO radar screens?
• The Case for a GM-free Sustainable World
• The WTO and the Multilateral Trading System - Past, Present and Future
• Manual on Good Practice's in Public Health-Sensitive Policy Measures and Patent Laws
• Financial Effects of FDI in the Context of a Possible WTO Agreement on Investment
• Market Access for Non-Agricultural Products
• Developing countries and world trade: Performance and prospects
• Globalisation, economic development and the role of the state
• Living with the fluid genome
• The WTO Agriculture Agreement: features, effects, negotiations and suggested changes
• WTO: The Doha Agenda
• Some Suggestions for Modalities in Agriculture Negotiations
• Intellectual property, biodiversity and sustainable development
• 'Golden Rice' - An exercise in how not to do science
• An Introduction to Biological Weapons, their Prohibition, and the Relationship to Biosafety
• Life after Injury
• The WTO, the post-Doha Agenda and the Future of the Trade System: A Development Perspective
• The New Work Programme of the WTO
• Developing Countries and Services Trade: Chasing a Black Cat in a Dark Room, Blindfolded
• Reforming the Global Financial Architecture: Issues and Proposals
• Good practices: Vol 3
• Good practices: Vol 2
• Good practices: Vol 1
• International environmental governance: Some issues from a developing country perspective
• Globalization and the crisis of sustainable development
• An introduction to globalization and its impacts
• Patents and development: Lessons learnt from the economic history of Switzerland
• Intellectual property rights and economic development - Historical lessons and emerging issues
• WTO agreement on agriculture: Deficiencies and proposals for change
• Slipping through the regulatory net: 'Naked' and 'free' nucleic acids
• TRIPS, drugs and public health: Issues and proposals
• Rethinking IPRs and the TRIPS agreement
• Globalization, gender equality, and state modernization
• Globalization and its impacts on indigenous women: The Philippine experience
• Dangers of negotiating investment and competition rules in the WTO
• WTO: Challenges for developing countries in the near future
• Why biotech patents are patently absurd
• The inappropriateness of the patent system for life forms and processes
• Horizontal gene transfer
• The proposed new issues in the WTO and the interests of developing countries
• Review of the TRIPS agreement: Fostering the transfer of technology to developing countries
• Developing countries, the WTO and a new round: A perspective
• The Implications of the New Issues in the WTO
• Negotiations on Agriculture and Services in the WTO: Suggestions for Modalities/Guidelines
• Globalization and the South: Some critical issues
• Causes and sources of the Asian financial crisis
• The debate on the International Financial Architecture
• Questioning the Solution
• Save Lives, Save Limbs: Life support for victims of mines, wars, and accidents
• The Silent Genocide - TWN Dossier on Iraq
• Intellectual Property Rights, the WTO and Developing Countries: The TRIPS agreement and policy options
• Model National Biosafety Law
• Survival, Persistence, Transfer (Series No. 3)
• The WTO and its Dispute Settlement System: Tilting the balance against the South
• Strengthening Developing Countries in the WTO
• The World Trade Organisation: A Guide to the Framework for International Trade
• Dolls and Dust
• Some Suggestions for Improvements in the WTO Agreements
• Gene Technology in the Etiology of Drug-resistant Diseases (Series No.2)
• Fatal Flaws in Food Safety Assessment:Critique of the Joint FAO/WHO Biotechnology & Food
  Safety Report (Series No.1)
• Options for Implementing the TRIPs Agreement in Developing Countries
• Implementing the TRIPs Agreement
• Genetic Engineering: Dream or Nightmare?
• The Implementation of the WTO Multilateral Trade Agreements, the "Built-In" Agenda, New Issues, and the Developing Countries
• Globalisation: The past in our present
• Trade and Environment in the WTO: A review of its initial work and future prospects
• The new issues and developing countries
• Some key issues relating to the WTO
• The WTO and the proposed multilateral investment agreement: Implications for developing countries and proposed positions
• From Marrakesh to Singapore: The WTO and developing countries
• An Introduction to the WTO Agreements
• The WTO Agreements: Deficiencies,
  Imbalances and Required Changes
• War Surgery, Field Manual
• The Uruguay Round and Third World Sovereignty
• The Future of North-South Relations:
  Conflict or Cooperation?
• Dark Victory
• Humanity Must Protect Nature
• Earth Summit Briefings
• Toxic Terror
• Monocultures of the Mind
• The Violence of the Green Revolution
• Overcoming Illusions About Biotechnology
• Return to the Good Earth
• Genetic Resources: Our Forgotten Treasure
• Modern Science in Crisis
• Biopolitics: A Feminist and Ecological Reader on Biotechnology
• The Market Tells Them So: The World Bank and Economic Fundamentalism in Africa
• Screening Foreign Investments: An Environmental Guide for Policy Makers and NGOs
• The World: A Third World Guide 1995/96
  (The 1997/98 edition is also available)
• The Rise and Fall of Economic liberalism: The Making of the Economic Gulag
• Third World Resurgence
• Third World Economics
• SUNS
• Greenwash
• Trends in World Communication
• The Malay House:Rediscovering Malaysia's Indigenous Shelter System
• Natives of Sarawak: Survival in Borneo's Vanishing Forests
• Biodiversity: Social and Ecological Perspectives
• The Battle for Sarawak's Forest
• The Tropical Forestry Action Plan: What Progress?
• The Endangered Rainforests and the Fight for Survival
• The Struggle for Land and the Fate of the Forests
• Slave and the Enclave
• TWN Trade & Development Series
• In Defence of Local Community Knowledge and Biodiversity
• The Need for Greater Regulation and Control of Genetic Engineering
• Biosafety:Scientific Findings and Elements of a Protocol
• TRIPs & Biodiversity: The Threat and Responses -A Third World view
• Liability and Compensation in a Biosafety Protocol
• Inhuman Rights:The Western System and Global Human Rights Abuse