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  2. Global strategies
  3. Promoting transparency in trade

Promoting transparency in trade

  • Lobbying for transparency in international trade

Implementation

Friends of the Earth International has played a leading role in efforts to "green the GATT" by having a number of meetings with inter-governmental and governmental trade officials and has published reports on the proposed Multilateral Trade Organization (MTO), on 'Transparency and Accountability in Trade Fora' and on 'Sustainable Commodity Production'.

Broader

Lobbying
Presentable
Advocating sustainable development
Presentable
Promoting-Demoting
Yet to rate

Narrower

Promoting transparency in world trade negotiations
Presentable
Improving business information
Presentable
Requiring market transparency in electronic commerce
Yet to rate
Promoting transparency in government procurement
Yet to rate
Achieving better functioning and transparency of commodity markets
Yet to rate

Constrained by

Restricting business practices
Yet to rate
Maintaining official secrecy
Yet to rate

Facilitates

Using environmental labelling
Excellent
Reducing protectionism in international trade
Presentable
Ameliorating negative consequences of economic globalization
Presentable
Protesting hidden costs of free trade
Yet to rate
Improving systems of international trade
Yet to rate

Facilitated by

Improving financial reporting in the public sector
Yet to rate
Establishing transparency agencies
Yet to rate

Related

Revealing experienced transparency
Yet to rate
Increasing transparency of action of international donor agencies
Yet to rate

Problem

Preferential trade arrangements
Excellent
Limited observance of multilateral trade agreements
Presentable
Fragmentation of the international trading system
Presentable
Environment policy as restriction on trade
Presentable
Ineffectiveness of international commodity agreements
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #16: Peace and Justice Strong Institutions

Metadata

Database
Global strategies
Type
(E) Emanations of other strategies
Subject
  • Communication » Influencing
  • Communication » Promotion
  • Commerce » Trade
    • Content quality
    Yet to rate
     Yet to rate
    Language
    English
    Last update
    Dec 3, 2024