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Unmasking the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
16 May 2021 - by GRAIN
In 2018, China’s biggest agrochemical corporation, Sinochem Group Co, announced that it had conducted field trials of hybrid wheat varieties in 230 locations in Pakistan. Since intellectual property rights prevent farmers from saving hybrid (...) -
What do FTAs mean for African women? A critical look into the African Continental Free Trade Area
15 December 2020 - by GRAIN
The recently ratified African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) looms over Africa. An initiative of the African Union, this mega free trade deal aims to consolidate African markets, boost trade between African countries, and ultimately (...) -
Deep and comprehensive dependency: How a trade agreement with the EU could devastate the Tunisian economy
9 December 2020 - by Hamza Hamouchene, Layla Riahi
Tunisia has undergone radical changes in the past decade, and faces more in the years to come, if the EU has its way. As the first country to topple its dictator in early 2011, it set off a chain of revolutions across North Africa and West Asia (...) -
Call of peoples, organizations, movements and networks in North Africa and the Middle East/The Arab region – For the cancellation of debts and dropping of the “free trade” agreements
20 May 2020 - by Collective
To address the Corona pandemic and its severe consequences: the need to break with the tools of imperialist domination over our peoples: indebtedness and “free trade” agreements The people of North Africa and the Middle East/The Arab region are (...) -
The African Continental Free Trade Area: What Kind of Pan-Africanism?
6 April 2020 - by Jean Nanga
In Kigali, Rwanda, on March 21, 2018, five years after the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU)/African Union (AU) – considered in the Newspeak of the AU as “fifty years of success” – 44 of the AU’s 55 member (...) -
An ABC of the ailing World Trade Organization
18 February 2020 - by CADTM
The IMF and the World Bank were not the only institutions to emerge to consolidate the world’s economy after World War II. Discussions between Allies, mainly the United States and Great Britain, concluded with the notion of an international trade (...) -
Series: Adverse International and Local Conditions for Sub-Saharan Africa (Part 1)
South African Special Economic Zones : History of Limited Successes
8 October 2019 - by Eric Toussaint, Patrick Bond, Ishmael Lesufi, Lisa Thompson
Given both short- and longer-term trends in the world and South African economies, there is a danger of government and society placing inordinate hopes in what are variously termed Export Processing Zones, Industrial Development Zones and (...) -
The African Continental Free Trade Agreement: Loss of Sovereignty, Lack of Transparency
19 August 2019 - by Jonathan Cannard
The African Union’s Assembly of Heads of State and Government conceived of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) in 2012 with the goal of creating a Continental Free Trade Area by 2017. In March 2018 the majority of AU member (...) -
No DCFTA in Tunisia / لا للآليكا في تونس
2 May 2019 - by Collective
The European Union is currently negotiating a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with Tunisia. The EU wants its companies to get open access to the Tunisian market, and aims at imposing its norms, standards and procedures. Such (...) -
Bolkestein returns: EU Commission power grab over services
18 December 2018 - by Corporate Europe Observatory
As early as 2004, the CADTM and other social movements resisted the adoption of the Bolkestein Directive which, in line with the EU’s free trade approach, aimed to define a framework that gives private corporations full and unimpeded access to (...) -
The euro project and the international integration of the South-Eastern European economies
13 October 2018 - by Ana Podvršič
In the recent years, scholars in critical international political economy have considerably explored the differences and similarities between the countries of the European periphery. Most of the studies, however, have focused on the structural (...) -
Corporate capture in Europe - When big business dominates policy-making and threatens our right
25 September 2018 - by Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU)
This report examines the extreme and undue influence of big business on European Union (EU) and member state decision-making processes. It has been produced by the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) as a response (...) -
Small–scale farmers of Africa and Denmark reject free trade agreements
27 July 2018 - by La Via Campesina
Representatives of La Via Campesina in Southern and Eastern Africa (LVC SEAf) and in European (ECVC) small-scale farming agree that free trade agreements (FTAs) on farm products benefits primarily transnational corporations and furthers the (...) -
EU-Tunisia negotiations: Free trade without trading freedoms?
14 May 2018 - by FTDES
Spring 2018 is about to see two fundamental negotiations for Tunisia conducted between representatives of Tunisia and the European Union (EU). First, during the week of April the 17th, negotiations will be held on the readmission of migrants and (...) -
The EU caught in the trap of Nigeria’s refusal to sign the West Africa Economic Partnership Agreement and the Continental Free Trade Area
9 May 2018 - by Jacques Berthelot
The EU caught in the trap of Nigeria’s refusal to sign the West Africa Economic Partnership Agreement and the Continental Free Trade Area On April 9, 2018 President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria very explicitly stated to the new Ambassador of the (...) -
Is Pakistan falling into China’s debt trap?
16 April 2018 - by Abdul Khaliq
• Pakistan will have to payback $100 billion to China by 2024 of total investment of $18.5 billion, which China has invested on account of bank loans in 19 early harvest projects, under CPEC. • China has become the biggest lender to Pakistan after (...) -
Senegalese economist Ndongo Samba Sylla: “the Continental Free Trade Area is a mistake” (Interview)
4 April 2018 - by Ndongo Samba Sylla, Maghreb Emergent
The economist Ndongo Samba Sylla is the author of the following books, among others: The Fair Trade Scandal: Marketing Poverty to Benefit the Rich and La démocratie contre la République: l’autre histoire du gouvernement du peuple. He tells Maghreb (...) -
How international investment agreements have made debt restructuring even more difficult and costly
19 March 2018 - by Yuefen Li
International investment and trade agreements are legally binding international treaties which give investors an additional layer of legal protection on top of the host country law and contract law. However, little efforts have been made in (...) -
The Maghreb seminar proclaims: “No to colonial agreements, for the defence of people’s sovereign right on their agricultural, food and environmental systems.”
19 February 2018 - by War on Want
In December, ATTAC Morocco, a member of the global network for the abolition of illegitimate debts (CADTM), organised a seminar in Agadir, Morocco with the participation of activists from Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, to discuss the (...) -
Final declaration of the Maghreb seminar: ‘Free trade’ agreements and food sovereignty
2 January 2018 - by ATTAC/CADTM Morocco
On December 15, 16 and 17, 2017, ATTAC Morocco, a member of the global network for the abolition of illegitimate debts (CADTM), organized a Maghreb seminar on free trade agreements, agriculture and food sovereignty under the slogan: No to (...) -
Final statement of the Peoples’ Summit “WTO Out, Building Sovereignty”
29 December 2017 - by Confluencia fuera OMC
The Peoples’ Summit “WTO Out, Building Sovereignty” gathered on December 11-13, 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, against the XI Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in this city. The networks and trade unions, human (...) -
Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
18 December 2017 - by Sudhir Shrestha
When Belt and Road Forum (BRF) was held on May 14-15, 2017 in Beijing, four Least Developed Countries (LDCs), namely Cambodia, Ethiopia, Laos and Myanmar, sent their highest level of delegation as their support to the Belt and Road Initiative (...) -
An introduction to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
24 November 2017 - by Robin Lee
While initial plans for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) predate those of OBOR it has been given renewed impetus under it and has come to be described as a flagship OBOR project. Along with the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic (...) -
Colonialism’s new clothes: The EU’s Economic Partnership Agreements with Africa
22 August 2017 - by GRAIN
Since 2002, African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries have negotiated a reciprocal free trade agreement known as the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU). While it was marketed as the magic bullet towards the (...) -
World Economic Forum-Africa hosts a turf battle between Jacob Zuma and ‘white monopoly capital’
3 May 2017 - by Patrick Bond
At a time US and South African presidents Donald Trump and Jacob Zuma personify controversies over crony capitalism, corruption, populist rhetoric and self-serving economic strategies, will big business calm down the politicians – or just egg (...)
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