Development banks & Trade organizations

• DEG - German Investment and Development Company promotes private sector development in Africa, Asia, Latin America as well as in Central and Eastern Europe by means of long-term project finance and consultancy services for business cooperation.
• Caribbean Group for Cooperation in Economic Development surprisingly, this is the " Caribbean Region homepage for Cooperation in economic development"
• International Small Business Consortium "To provide a productive and professional Internet / WWW based network to help Small/Medium Enterprises s communicate about business needs, share their resources and expand their markets."
• Home Page on Women, Trade and Globalization: "a clearing house of information on organisations, activities and publications on women, globalization and trade."
• Consultative Group to assist the poorest (CGAP) is "a multi-donor effort to address poverty through the support and promotion of micro-finance programs."
• Information on NAFTA, the free-trade agreement between the USA, Canada and Mexico, as provided by the OAS (Organization of American States)
• The World Bank's mission is "to help developing countries reduce poverty and promote sustainable development."
• Asian Development Bank is "engaged in promoting the economic and social progress of its developing member countries in the Asian and Pacific region."
• ASEAN's aim is "to promote the economic, social and cultural development of the region through cooperative programmes; to safeguard the political and economic stability of the region against big power rivalry; and to serve as a forum for the resolution of intra-regional differences."
• Inter American Development Bank is "an international financial institution created in 1959 to help accelerate the economic and social development of its member countries in Latin America and the Caribbean." (available in Spanish and English)
• Mercosur: "Treaty Establishing a Common Market between the Argentine Republic. the Federal Republic of Brazil. the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay" (Spanish version)
• MERCOSUR (English version)
• MERCOSUL (Portuguese version)
• International Fund for Agricultural Development "a specialized agency of the United Nations launched in December 1977 as an international financial institution with the mandate of assisting exclusively the rural poor."
• IMF's aim is: " to promote international monetary cooperation; to facilitate the expansion and balanced growth of international trade; to promote exchange stability; to assist in the establishment of a multilateral system of payments; to make the general resources of the Fund temporarily available to the members under adequate safeguards; and to shorten the duration and lessen the degree of disequilibrium in the international balances of payments of members."
• GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) (gopher)
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is a unique forum permitting governments of the industrialised democracies to study and formulate the best policies possible in all economic and social spheres.
• The World Trade Organisation "provides the principal contractual obligations determining how governments frame and implement domestic trade legislation and regulations. And it is the platform on which trade relations among countries evolve through collective debate, negotiation and adjudication.

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