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Eighth Sustainable Development Conference
The Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) is holding its Eighth Sustainable Development Conference (SDC) from 7—9 December 2005 at the Best Western Hotel, Islamabad, Pakistan. The Sustainable Development Conference series has been established as a prime Conference in South Asia on development issues due to which it attracts leading intellectuals and policy-makers to come together. The Conference is open to the audience and there is no registration fee... ....more ....
SAFTA: Way Forward
One of the major objectives of World Trade Organization (WTO) is to create and promote a rule-based, liberal and “transparent” multilateral trading regime. It was perceived that the multilateralism would not take off overnight; hence from the outset there was room for regional trade agreements (RTAs) in the WTO......more....
Review of the Textbooks
T wo years ago, the Sustainable Development Policy Institute released a report on textbooks from the perspective of correcting the fallacies, prejudices, and historical falsehood in them......more....
Return of an Expelled Camel Jockey
The case study has been taken from SDPI research, Trafficking in children for labour and sexual exploitation in Pakistan......more....
Agriculture at the Heart of Trade Talks
Livelihood of about 70 percent of population in the developing countries is dependent on agriculture. Compared to this, only four percent of people in the developed countries are engaged in agriculture .......more....
Small is Big in World Trade
IIf the process of “mini-ministerial meeting” of WTO members is a non-consultative, non-transparent and exclusive process, what would we term the exclusive meeting of G-20 ministers recently held in Pakistan?......more....
