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Andrew Light Speaker Tour in Europe May 14, 2013 / Berlin, Germany; Brussels, BelgiumGMF Senior Fellow Andrew Light participated in a speaking tour in Europe to discuss opportunities for transatlantic cooperation on climate and energy policy in the second Obama administration.
In this podcast, GMF Vice President of Programs Ivan Vejvoda discusses last month's historic agreement to normalize relations between Kosovo and Serbia.
Anchor Elaine Reyes speaks with Andrew Small, Transatlantic Fellow of the Asia Program for the German Marshall Fund, about Beijing's potential role in brokering peace between Israel and Palestine
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Trade and Poverty Forum Urges Key Democracies to Enact Trade Policy Reform April 02, 2005 / Nagoya, Japan
The Trade and Poverty Forum (TPF) held its third plenary meeting April 2–4 in Nagoya, Japan, to mobilize political support and resources around concrete, consensus-based trade reform proposals that could form the basis of an agreement in the Doha Round. Joined by Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura and U.S. congressmen Jim Kolbe (R–AZ) and Adam Smith (D–WA) at the conclusion of the meeting, the Forum announced plans to advance the recommendations of its Call to Action— released last year — at three key 2005 events.
TPF members will publicize the group's policy proposals in their home countries in the weeks and months before the July G-8 Summit, and will then travel to Scotland during the Summit to further broadcast their calls for poverty-alleviating trade reforms. TPF members also plan to organize activities around the UN Summit on Millennium Development Goals in New York in September and the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial Conference in December.
In addition, they will work to educate audiences in their own countries about the link between trade and poverty. “I sometimes wonder how many Japanese people correctly understand the poverty situation in the rest of the world,” Machimura said at the end of the TPF meeting, underscoring the importance of public awareness of the issues. “Very few people in Japan really understand that reality” of developing-country citizens living on $1 per day.
Comprised of prominent citizens from the world’s leading developing and industrialized democracies — the United States, Europe, Japan, India, Brazil, and South Africa — the Trade and Poverty Forum is a project of the German Marshall Fund with support from the following institutions: 21st Century Public Policy Institute, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Citigroup Foundation, Confederation of Indian Industry, King Baudouin Foundation, Merck Foundation. TPF, which has been meeting for the past three years, exists to develop and advocate for a global anti-poverty approach acceptable to both developing and industrial nations.
