Globalization 2006

Top Ten Economic Predictions for 2006, by Nariman Behravesh, Chief Economist, Global Insight, http://www.globalinsight.com/Highlight/HighlightDetail2565.htm

The Trade Deficit and Productivity, comment by Dean Baker

http://www.cepr.net/err/2006_01_03.htm#7

Europe

Europe Looking for a Way Forward for 2006         http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31521

Galileo: A System to Make Jove Proud  http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5350157&fsrc=nwl

Spain's Farmers Feel Pinch of Drought in their Pockets http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31599

Germany, comment by Dean Baker, http://www.cepr.net/err/2006_01_03.htm#7

Boycotts and Anti-sweatshop Movements

University of Michigan Suspends Sale of Coca-Cola news.corporate.findlaw.com/ap/f/66/12-30-2005/09e90011b3ec59de.html

Designated Suppliers pilot launched for licensed apparel at U. Wisconsin  http://www.news.wisc.edu/11957.htmThe Global Environment
Apollo Now by William Greider
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060102/greider
Racing Toward Climate Disaster
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31589
New Forestry Law Sets Colombia Back Half a Century 
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31513
The Fusion of Peak Oil & Climate Change
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/12/329146.html
Evangelicals Converted on the Environment
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/4af602f0-7359-11da-8b42-0000779e2340.html
Climate Debt: Making Historical Responsibility Part of the Solution
http://en.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=56256305&u=520527
Senate Blocks Alaska Wilderness Drilling
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2701
American Global Gas Emissions Accelerate to an All-Time High
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1672251,00.html
Kyoto's Timetables, UN Red Tape Count Against Africa
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31518 
 
 
Labor Rights/Human Rights
Human Trafficking Still Problem in Kuwait
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/K/KUWAIT_HUMAN_TRAFFICKING?SITE=CALAK&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Impunity, violence and dysfunctions of the judiciary in Guatemala 
http://www.icftu.org/displaydocument.asp?Index=991223243&Language=EN
Wal-Mart
 Wal-Mart's Holiday Growth May Be at Low End of Forecast
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/02/business/02walmart.html?pagewanted=all
Jury Fines Wal-Mart for 8 Million Labor Violations
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2705
Big Box Backlash: The Stealth Campaign at the World Trade Organization to Preempt Local Control Over Land Use
http://www.citizen.org/documents/Zoning_Memo_Final.pdf
 
Global Governance
Peace on Earth?  Increasingly, Yes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/27/AR2005122700732.html
UN Blue Helmets Earn Applause and Censure
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31623
Senate Passes Millennium Development Goals Legislation
http://www.unausa.org/site/pp.asp?c=fvKRI8MPJpF&b=1318931.
The Sound of Silence: As in Dogs Not Barking by Ian Williams
http://deadlinepundit.blogspot.com/
No Declaration for Indigenous People This Year - Maybe Next Year
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31549
IMFApproves Debt Relief for Poorest Countries
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/12/21/uimf.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/12/21/ixportaltop.htm
 
Immigration
Tougher Border Enforcement Keeps Immigrants from Going Home
http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/v-print/story/14028858p-14860970c.html
The Mexican Indian Exodus to SF Divides the Day Labor Market 
http://www.sfbg.com/40/13/news_folsom.html
Holiday Visit Worth the Risk for Migrants
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1223/p04s01-woam.html
A Tradition of Farming Being Abandoned
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hmong28dec28,1,5841815.story 
Women Crossing Borders
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/broadband/chi-borders-htmlstory,0,990501.htmlstory
Group: State Law Puts U.S. at Risk
http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/36450.html
Proposed Law Would Endanger Asylum Seekers
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/asylum/asylum.htm
Ferry Dispute Tests Ireland's Taste for Globalization
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/27/business/worldbusiness/27strike.html
U.S. Stalls on Human Trafficking
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0512270176dec27,1,2117782.story
Puerto Rican Coffee Growers Not Picky - Industry Turns to Jails to East Labor Shortage
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0512260180dec26,1,7496328.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
Ohio Patriot Act May Soon Become Law
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2703
Global Migration Coursing Through Mexico
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3002 
Rebuilding the Nation of Immigrants by Lydia Chavez
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-chavez21dec21,1,3748508.story
Decades Later, Guest Workers Get Payment
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-briefs22.6dec22,1,1318961.story
 
China
Citigroup Expected to Land China Deal
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/31/business/worldbusiness/31bank.html
In Worker's Death, View of China's Harsh Justice
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/31/international/asia/31china.html 
A Chinese Homecoming by Robert Skidelsky
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7206&category=138&author=&AuthKey=3e897b2f980789886c4d55d60085b732
China's Probe of Mining Disaster Finds Corruption
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/23/AR2005122301472.html
China's Youth Look to Seoul
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/02/international/asia/02korea.html?incamp=article_popular
China's Santa's Elves
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_Business/GL23Cb01.html
Shenzhen at 25
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/GI27Ad02.html
China and India Pin Down Syria Deal
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_Business/GL22Cb06.html
Booming China Offers Peace and Goodwill
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,1673311,00.html
Deadly Dust: The Silicosis Epidemic in Guangdong
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2005/12/deadly_dustchina_labour_bulletin_research_series_no1_20.php
China's Economy, comment by Dean Baker
http://www.cepr.net/err/2006_01_03.htm#7
 
Developing Countries
Mexico: Zapatistas Start Political Tour
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/4573512.stm
Argentine Workers Take Control
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/americas/4562114.stm
Un-Indebting Argentina
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2005-12/29adamovsky.cfm
Argentina: Rock for Bauen and Zanon
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2005-12/26trigona.cfm
Swaziland Facing Tenth Year of Declining Growth
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31604
Social Reforms Making Slow Progress in Latin America
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31596
A Difficult Year Ahead for Famine Hit Malawi
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31581
South Africa: Microfinance Groups Need to Learn from Bangladesh Experience
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31595
Small Loans for Men Will Keep Violence Against Women Down
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31578
Morales as First Indigenous President
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31452 
Evo Morales by Rahul Mahajan
http://empirenotes.org/december05.html#26dec051 
"I Believe Only in the Power of the People," by Evo Morales
http://www.countercurrents.org/bolivia-morales221205.htm
Bolivia's Evo Morales Shifts the Hemispheric Balance of Power
http://www.pinr.com
Bolivia: Morales' Coca Conditions
http://www.stratfor.org/products/premium/read_article.php?id=260051
USAID To Push Democratisation Agenda
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/2cedcf94-7422-11da-ab91-0000779e2340.html
Testing Drugs on India's Poor
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,69595,00.html
Brazil: Government, Activists Still at Loggerheads Over Land Reform
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31523
Africa: Mass Unemployment Hampers Development
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31493
 
Resources
Corporate Accountability International
http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/cms/index.cfm?group_id=1000
Globalization and Labor Standards Newsletter December, 2005
http://www.laborstandards.org.
 
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