Yiu, L., Parker, J.E., Saner, R. “Best Practice: Tri-Continental (Europe, North-America, Asia) ODL Programme of 3M Corporation’s Asia-Pacific Research Laboratories” in the Proceedings of the Lisbon 2000 European Conference on ODL Networking for Quality Learning, 19-21 June 2000, p. 195-199.
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Transnational Corporations
Niederberger, A.A. & Saner, R. 2005. Exploring the relationship between FDI flows and CDM potential. Transnational Corporations, 14 (1): 1-40
Negotiating environmental conflicts: Economic, sociological, and legal aspects of environmental negotiations in the Alpine region
Staehelin-Witt, E., Saner, R., & Pfeifer, B.W. 2005. Negotiating environmental conflicts: Economic, sociological, and legal aspects of environmental negotiations in the Alpine region. Zurich: vdf Hochschulverlag AG an der ETH Zürich.
Stakeholder Analysis of Trans-Border Regional Cooperation on Environmental Protection in Northeast Asia
Yiu, Lichia; Saner, Raymond; Yong, Jiong; “Stakeholder Analysis of Trans-Border Regional Cooperation on Environmental Protection in Northeast Asia”, Social Strategies (Ed. Trappe, Paul), Vol. 36, pp. 324-339, 2002.
Climate Change and Environmental Negotiations: Global and Local Dynamics
Saner, R.; Jauregui, S; Yiu,L; “Climate Change and Environmental Negotiations: Global and Local Dynamics”; LosAmigos del Libro, La Paz, 2001. (308 pages).
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Trade in Educational Services and the Doha WTO Round: the need to move out of current impasse
“Trade in educational services (ES) is a potentially very lucrative source of revenue for a country and its schools, universities and training providers. For example, exports of ES and their respective share of all exported services in 2000 amounted to 10.28 Billion USD (3.5%) for the USA and 2.155 Billion USD (11.8%) for Australia. Looking at the world market of ES, the total value of annual trade in 1999 in higher education services has been estimated at 30 Billion USD reaching 50% of trade in financial services estimated at 59.3 Billion USD. These figures would even be higher if estimates were available for total trade in ES. Higher education is only one of five sub sectors in ES. Not included are trade in primary secondary and adult education services.”
Saner, R. 2005. Trade in Educational Services and the Doha WTO Round: the need to move out of current impasse. Paper presented at the ECG-WTO, August 2005.
Negotiating Trade in Educational Services within the WTO/GATS Context
Trade in Educational Services (ES) is affecting the interests of many countries in trade, economics, education and culture resulting in heated debates between government representatives, private sector investors, teacher unions and student associations on how to approach liberalisation of this sector, if at all. What ever the approach, an agreement on GATS/ES should be sufficiently flexible to safeguard the multi-functional nature of education, as well as the different needs of developing countries’ education without falling into the trap of “managed trade” nor succumbing to short-term myopic protectionism.
The authors describe the complexities of the WTO/GATS negotiations on trade in educational services and outline ways on how negotiations of GATS/ES could be successfully completed within the timeframe of the Doha Round.
Saner, R. & Fasel, S. 2003. Negotiating Trade in Educational Services within the WTO/GATS Context. Aussenwirtschaft, 59: 275-308
Technical Assitance to Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in the context of the Doha Development Round (DDR): High risk of failure
Saner, Raymond; Paez, Laura; “Technical Assitance to Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in the context of the Doha Development Round (DDR): High risk of failure”, (accepted for publication in Journal of World Trade,) spring 2006
Development Diplomacy and Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers for Least Developed Countries : Non-State Actor Advocacy and Multistakeholder Diplomacy
Saner, R. 2005. Development Diplomacy by Non-State-Actors: An Emerging Form of Multistakeholder Diplomacy. Malta: DiploFoundation.
Abstract
This article describes development diplomacy in the context of international cooperation for poverty reduction in Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs). In particular, the authors describe the goal of the International Labour Organisation (ILO)- a non-state actor- to advocate inclusion of Employment and Decent Work (DW) in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP). The PRSPs are the successor policy instruments of the failed Strategic Adjustment Programmes (SAP). Both programmes, SAP and PRSP are instruments which were developed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) to help highly indebted Least Developed Countries (LDCs) restructure in order to get these countries out of deep poverty. However, none of the PRSPs so far emphasize policies that lead to job creation, which the ILO would like to see be included in future PRSPs.
Least Developed Countries: Non-State Actor Advocacy and Multistakeholder Diplomacy
Yiu, L., & Saner, R. 2005. Development Diplomacy and Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers for Least Developed Countries: Non-State Actor Advocacy and Multistakeholder Diplomacy. Malta: DiploFoundation.
Abstract
Conventional definitions of diplomacy previously reserved for state actors increasingly apply to non-state actors such as non-governmental organisations, civil society organisations, and international organisations. Development policy and intervention in the form of development aid has been reserved in the past to interactions between state actors such donor countries (developed countries) and beneficiary countries (developing or transition countries). While non-governmental organisations have always been active in the field of development aid as providers of services, they have not openly become political actors in the development policy field until recently. The purpose of this article is to define the new term “development diplomacy” and to show how this broadening of mandate affects the policy dialogue and policy negotiations in international development.