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  • ...ness environment which will stimulate innovation and economic growth, more investment and create new jobs.[http://www.tabd.com/about] drawing on the resources of existing companies and associations.' This 'proces
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  • ...dscape of the post-war UK including the [[Economic League]], The [[Council on Foreign Relations]], [[Common Cause]] ...which is so familiar and depressing a part of life in the Labour Party and on the British Left in general.(1) But the view of the Labour Party as origina
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  • ...ermines the ERT work programme, sets priorities, votes budgets and decides on the publication of ERT reports and proposals. The decisions are taken by co :ERT calls on governments, international organisations and private investors to intensify
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  • ...ocuses on middle income and creditworthy poor countries, while IDA focuses on the poorest countries in the world. Together we provide low-interest loans, ...nk has lent and given grants and credits worth $400 billion which is spent on specific projects such as freeways and dams.<ref>Anne Davies, [http://www.t
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  • GATSwatch.org brings you news and critical information on the GATS 2000 negotiations and the global campaign to 'Stop the GATS Attack ...e, the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), seeks to establish a multilateral framework of legally-binding rules governing the conduct of world trade in
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  • ...to moderate drinkers.<ref>World Health Organisation, Global Status Report on Alcohol Policy, ibid.</ref>{{Template:alcohol badge}} ...mecq in particular have accelerated the big multinationals’ programme of investment in vineyards and branded wines, collecting wine brands and in doing so chan
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  • ...rt of other governments, in particular the US government (see also section on links with governments). ...uring the big drug profits); implementation and strengthening of the TRIPs agreement (patent legislation); lowering of chemical threshold values (e.g. the allow
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  • ...vernment officials and to build close relationships with them is by laying on expenses paid trips for them. This is also a favoured tactic of some of the ...croplifeamerica.org/public/issues/biotech/committee.html. More information on this organisation's sinister activities can be found at: http://www.ewg.org
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  • ...ly been to secure Big Business its place at the heart of influencing major multilateral institutions such as the [[World Trade Organisation]] and the United Nation He is also on the board of trustees of the [[World Economic Forum]], whose annual meeting
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  • ...ustry lobby groups that lobbied for the infamous Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) and is one of the key business coalitions pushing along business-frie ...1.11 billion from the World Bank, $611 million from the [[Overseas Private Investment Corporation]] and $1.56 billion from other government sources<ref>Earth Rig
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  • ...viciously anti-union. '[[Brown & Root]] as an entity has never had a labor agreement,' claims [[Dale Wortham]], president of the Harris County [[AFL-CIO]] in Ho ...security guards for the pipelines.'77 In addition, as the largest foreign investment project in Burma, the pipelines will provide revenue to prop up the regime,
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  • *Provide members with timely information on OECD policies and their implications for business and industry<ref>BIAC [ht ...Trade/tradestat98FIN.pdf Priorities for OECD and WTO Work: BIAC Submission on Trade-Related Issues to the OECD], Business and Industry Advisory Committee
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  • ...ganisation developed from an earlier treaty known as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade or GATT. GATT was established in 1948, in the aftermath o ...ce on Trade and Employment in Havana, Cuba 1947. It was believed that this agreement would soon be replaced by the creation of an International Trade Organisati
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  • ...young entrepreneurs with the financial resources through the launching of investment funds, training initiatives, and business coaching they need to work, parti ...materials and technology with some $14 billion in assets. Schimmel serves on the Board of various charitable foundations, including the [[Schimmel Famil
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  • ...TNCs dedicated to promoting business as an environmentally friendly actor on key global issues. The Council acts as a networking hub for its corporate m ...ice against the regulation of transnational corporations, for deregulation on trade and environmental issues, and the voluntary approach.
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