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. 73 - Winter 2012/2013
Contents: Speculation and food security: Markets must be regulated | OECD guidelines for multinationals: Switzerland lags behind | Transparency in development cooperation: A day in data jungle | Disenchantment of a myth: Backtracking on biofuels | etc. ...>>
Alliance Sud News No. 72 - Summer 2012
Contents: «Corporate Justice» petition submitted: 135,285 people demand clear rules for Swiss Corporations | «Corporate Justice»: the view of a business ethics expert | Public-Private Development Partnerships: Microinsurance is in vogue | Fairer investment protection agreements: The example of Bolivia | New President - old tasks: The World Bank and its projects | etc. ...>>
Alliance Sud News No. 71 - Spring 2012
Contents: Rio+20: No change of course in sight | Rio+20: «We need prosperity without growth» | «Corporate Justice» campaign: Closing legal loopholes | Switzerland's ODA 2013-16: New priorities and more funding | Clean money strategy: Developing countries being ignored | etc. ...>>
Alliance Sud News No. 70 - Winter 2011/12
Contents: Corporate Justice Campaign: Rules for Business. Rights for People | Rio+20: Reservations about Green Economy | OECD DAC Report on the Future of Development Cooperation | Trusts and Front Companies: Rearming Tax Haven Switzerland? | Free Trade Agreements: India fights back over its generics | etc. ...>>
Alliance Sud News No. 69 - Autumn 2011
Contents: UN climate conference in Durban: Another round in the climate dance | Aid effectiveness: OECD veering in the wrong direction | Guidelines for human rights-compliant trade policy: Interview | WTO Ministerial Conference in Geneva | World Bank's new «Program for Results» proposal | etc. ...>>
Alliance Sud News No. 68 - Summer 2011
Contents: Alliance Sud in dialogue with Nestlé: A look behind the fences | SDC and multinationals: Market models for the poor? | Socially explosive Swiss IMF voting group: Switzerland's Arabia? | Switzerland's tax policy: Support for tax dodgers | Bilateral free trade agreements: Interview with Economiesuisse | etc. ...>>
Alliance Sud News No. 67 - Spring 2011
Contents: One-sided investment protection agreements: Protective umbrellas for multinationals | Sustainable development: Two lost decades | Twenty years of debt relief: The debt spiral continues | European development cooperation: Trend towards self-interest | Swiss ODA increase: Perseverance brings success | etc. ...>>
Alliance Sud News No. 66 - Winter 2010/11
Contents: Partnerships with the private sector | Green economy: The new buzzword leaves much open | Bilateral trade agreements: Labour provisions à la carte | Free Trade Agreement with China: Focusing on human rights | Tax dodging by multinationals: Zug tricks Ghana | Regional development banks: The great unknowns | Final withholding tax: A model for the South? etc. ...>>
Alliance Sud News No. 65 - Autumn 2010
Contents: Editorial: End of water privatization? | Financial market regulation two years after the big crash: Patchwork instead of bold reforms | Cancún looks set to be another failed round: Climate protection standstill | No development without civil society: Towards a global consensus | ODA, aid to Eastern Europe, regional banks and IMF: A six pack for international cooperation | Bilateral trade agreement with Peru: Exporting coffee beans, importing Nescafe | Tax Justice Focus: Special Edition on Switzerland ...>>
Alliance Sud News No. 64 - Summer 2010
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 ...>>
