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FROM POVERTY TO POWER34 UN (2006) ‘World Economic and Social Survey 2006’.35 J.M. Keynes (1941).36 Wall Street Journal, 24 May 1985.37 N. Birdsall (2006).38 J. Kimmis (2005).39 Quoted in D. <strong>Green</strong> (1999).40 NGOs (including Jubilee 2000) had serious reservations about the IMF model– not least that it excluded the IMF itself from having <strong>to</strong> be subject <strong>to</strong> any suchmechanism.41 NatWest Group Financial Review, p.34.42 J. Williamson et al. (2003).43 J. Stiglitz (2006) op. cit., p.4.44 ‘The invasion of the sovereign-wealth funds’, Economist, 19 January <strong>2008</strong>.45 A. Cobham (2005).46 ‘Report Of Investigation Of Enron Corporation And Related EntitiesRegarding Federal Tax And Compensation Issues, And PolicyRecommendations’, www.gpo.gov/congress/joint/jcs-3-03/vol1/ index.html47 R. Baker (2005).48 J. Kimmis (2005) op. cit.49 This has been proposed by the Tax Justice Network; see:www.taxjustice.net/cms/front_content.php?idcat=250 Landau Commission Final Report,www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/IMG/pdf/LandauENG1.pdf51 Named after the Nobel prize-winning economist James Tobin, who firstproposed it.52 US International Trade Commission, www.usitc.gov53 OECD (2007) ‘Agricultural Policies in OECD Countries’.54 <strong>Oxfam</strong> International (2005) ‘A Round for Free’.55 H.-J. Chang and D. <strong>Green</strong> (2003).56 <strong>Oxfam</strong> International (2007) ‘Signing Away The Future’.57 Since the accession of China in 2001, the WTO is essentially a global body.Only a few transition economies, notably Russia and the Ukraine, and a fewothers such as Saudi Arabia, have yet <strong>to</strong> join.58 See <strong>Oxfam</strong> International (2002) ‘Rigged Rules and Double Standards’; the<strong>Oxfam</strong> International website carries numerous papers on trade issues:www.oxfam.org/en/policy59 <strong>Oxfam</strong> America (2007) ‘Paying the Price’.60 <strong>Oxfam</strong> International (2005) ‘Truth or Consequences’.61 <strong>Oxfam</strong> International (2005) ‘Kicking Down the Door’.62 N. Schrijver and F. Weiss (2004).63 SUNS #5784, 20 April 2005.64 H.-J. Chang (2001) Kicking Away the Ladder.65 R. Falvey and N. Foster (2006). The same study also found that weak IPprotection has actually stimulated R&D activity in many countries byencouraging knowledge spillovers from transnational corporations and otherdomestic firms.464

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