Getting ready for the millennium round trade negotiations
Contents: 1. Overview / Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla and Sherman Robinson 2. Latin American perspective / Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla and Lucio Reca 3. Asian perspective / Marcus Noland 4. African perspective / Natasha Mukherjee and Rebecca Lee Harris 5. Transition Economies' perspective / Ulrike Grote and Peter Wehrheim 6. European Union perspective / Stefan Tangermann 7. United States of America perspective / Dale Hathaway 8. Least-developed Countries' perspective / Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla, Marcelle Thomas, and Valeria Pineiro 9. Cairns Group perspective / Kym Anderson.
Globalization makes new demands on public health research
Globalization is bringing greater interdependence between different parts of the world, resulting in both positive and negative local effects. Inevitably, fast-moving health threats such as HIV and avian flu bring new challenges. Poorer countries increasingly import occupational health hazards because labour is cheaper and standards weaker. But globalization probably also contributes to increasing life expectancy in some countries. For public health, globalization is a global challenge: part of human development and hence also amenable to human management.
MACROECONOMIC, TRADE AND SECTORAL ISSUES IN THE AGRICULTURE OF LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
World macroeconomic and agricultural cycles have had a major impact on the economies of LAC countries and on the behavior of the agricultural sector in the region. During the 60's and 70's, LAC countries benefitted form the overall buoyancy of the world economy. There were indeed discussions regarding the adequacy and sustainability of the development strategy based on import substitution industrialization (ISI) (which was criticized because its negative impact on growth, macroeconomic stability, technological innovation and income distribution), and clearly accelerating inflationary pressures also led to worries about the adequate management of fiscal and monetary policies in the region. The oil shocks during the 70's were weathered in part because LAC's exports were helped by the increase in the prices of commodities (agricultural and non-agricultural) , and because of the increased availability of financing in private world capital markets.