Written Testimony Regarding the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) Prepared by the International Labor Rights Fund

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.ILRF_CAFTA_Testimony_2004.pdf: 37 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Wal-Mart Sweatshops Litigation Demands

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.ILRF_WalMartLitigationDemands_2005.pdf: 359 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

A Valentine\u27s Day Report: Worker Justice and Basic Rights on Flower Plantations in Colombia and Ecuador

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.ILRF_AValentine_sDayReport_WorkerJusticeAndBasicRights_2007.pdf: 230 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Independent Consultants\u27 Report of the Initial Due Diligence Scoping Review of OPIC funded AMPCO (CMS and Noble Affiliates) Project in Equatorial Guinea 22 Septembre - 1 October 2000

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.ILRF_EquatorialGuinea_2000.pdf: 102 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Nutrition-sensitive value chains: A guide for project design

A first-of-its-kind, this new Guide from IFAD presents practical, step-by-step guidance for shaping value chain projects to improve nutrition. The Guide highlights challenges and opportunities in establishing nutrition-sensitive value chains (NSVCs) and looks at how they can produce positive outcomes, not only in terms of generating income but also for improving nutrition for smallholder producers. The Guide was developed using an in-depth participatory and consultative approach. Beginning from available evidence, the NSVC framework was developed, field tested and then validated by national and international experts. The Guide is relevant not only for IFAD but also for others that recognize the critical importance of incorporating nutrition and improving diets through value chain projects. Governments, NGOs, civil society, the private sector, and other institutions and development agencies working in agriculture, food systems, nutrition and rural development will find the Guide useful

Blue whales and seismic surveying in Australia

Blue whale populations were devastated in the last century by commercial whaling, which reduced blue whales from a quarter of a million to just a few hundred animals. Australian waters are home to both the Antarctic blue whale and a smaller sub- species, the pygmy blue whale. Blue whale numbers have increased a little since whaling ended but their recovery has been slow and numbers still remain in the few thousands. This analysis looks at the scale of seismic testing by the offshore oil and gas industry in important blue whale habitat in Australia. Blue whales in Australian waters Blue whales come to Australian waters to feed in just a few unique locations. There are three main areas: the Perth Canyon (March – May), the Bonney Upwelling off Victoria and South Australia (November – April) and the waters off Kangaroo Island extending into the eastern Great Australian Bight (November – May). Feeding is also thought to take place elsewhere off the WA coast from Cape Naturaliste northwards and also off Ningaloo Reef as pygmy blue whales migrate northwards (March – August) from Australia to Indonesian waters where they go to give birth to and nurse their young, before returning south (October – December) to feeding grounds in Australian waters. Blue whales are listed as endangered under Australian federal legislation, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC Act)

Qatar Launches National Summary Data Page (NSDP)

Qatar has launched a National Summary Data Page (NSDP) in implementing the recommendations of the IMF’s Enhanced General Data Dissemination System (e-GDDS). The e?GDDS was established by the IMF’s Executive Board in May 2015 to support improved data transparency, encourage statistical development, and help create synergies between data dissemination and surveillance

IMF and CNB Join Efforts to Address Demographic Challenges

The second joint conference entitled “Demographics, Jobs, and Growth: Navigating the Future in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe”, organized by the Croatian National Bank (CNB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will begin today in Dubrovnik. This year’s conference focuses on the labor market and demographic challenges, the future of labor, and policies needed to sustain growth and reach Western European levels of income. During the first part of the conference, panelists will discuss the economic developments and capacity constraints arising from labor market shortages and skill mismatches