Alliance Sud News
Alliance Sud News offers commentary and critical analyses of Swiss development policy and foreign policy related to poor countries and their population. Each issue focuses on a central topic and also contains shorter contributions on Alliance Sud’s activities.
Alliance Sud News No. 64 - Summer 2010
The latest edition of Alliance Sud News is now on the web. Contents: Editorial: Financial crisis, Act Two | Millennium Development Goals (1): Challenges for Switzerland at all levels | Millennium Development Goals (2): Plea for more coherence | Review of the OECD guidelines for multinationals: A chance to give them more bite | Restitution of stolen assets: The crux of the matter | Developing countries and economic crisis: Massive setbacks | Free trade agreement with India: Industrial tariffs as a stumbling block ...>>
Alliance Sud News No. 63 - Spring 2010
Contents: Editorial: And if the climate scientists were wrong? | Land grabbing (1): What recipes against foreign land grabbing? | Land grabbing (2): Interview with the SDC | Fighting tax evasion: Is the South being left behind? | Crisis management and Global Governance: The UN as onlooker | Climate policy after Copenhagen: Dismal outlook for climate ...>>
Alliance Sud News No. 62 - Winter 2009/10
Content: Editorial: Counterproductive use of plebiscites as opinion polls | Import taxes on sugar: Poor countries finance Swiss emergency stockpiles | Doha Round: Keep talking or break it off? | EU development policy: The primacy of self-interest | Climate conference in Copenhagen: The great failure | IMF reform: Swiss seat wobbles | OECD country report on Switzerland's official development assistance ...>>
Alliance Sud News No. 61 - Autumn 2009
Content: Editorial: What does Swiss foreign policy communicate? | Countdown to the Copenhagen climate conference: The March of Folly | Climate change and development: Interview with Martin Khor | Financing climate measures in the South: Quest for funds | Trade and climate: Controversial border carbon adjustments | Humanitarian aid: Armed protection for aid workers? | New Financial Secrecy Index ...>>
Alliance Sud News No. 60 - Summer 2009
Content: Editorial: Wrangling over Atalanta | Financial crisis: The end of an era | UN conference on the economic crisis: A review | Climate funds: Too much World Bank, too little money | Bilateral trade agreements: Linking trade and human rights | OECD guidelines for multinationals: Little bite and commitment ...>>
Alliance Sud News No. 59 - Spring 2009
Content: Negotiating a new climate agreement: Forest conservation – barking up the wrong tree? | Financial crisis: Seeking a new world financial order | Impressions from the World Water Forum in Istanbul: Water divides unbridged | The WTO Doha Round | Is it a thing of the past? | The WTO and the Cotton Initiative: Interview with Nicolas Imboden, Director of IDEAS Centre Geneva | Feminist responses to care crises: WIDE Switzerland founded ...>>
Alliance Sud News No. 58 - Winter 2008/09
Financial crisis (1): How developing countries can better protect themselves; Financial crisis (2): Interview with UNCTAD Chief Economist Heiner Flassbeck | Fleeing the climate: Climate refugees unprotected under international law | Bilateral trade negotiations: Resistance stirs in India | Doha Conference on Financing for Development: Interview with Markus Brun from Catholic Lenten Fund ...>>
Alliance Sud News No. 57 - Autumn 2008
Climate protection and trade policy: Sharply conflicting interests; Climate talks on Post-Kyoto Agreement: Going back to square one | Change at the helm of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC): Interview with the new Director | Second UN Conference on Financing for Development: Unbalanced in many respects! | High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra: New action plan benefits civil society (interview) ...>>
