Number 5, August 2008
briefing paper
More Than Aid:
Partnership for Development
by Eric Muñoz
www.bread.org
Commitment to Development Index 2007
7
Components
6
Aid
5
Trade
Investment
4
Migration
3
Environment
Security
2
Technology
Italy
Greece
Japan
Portugal
Switzerland
Spain
Belguim
France
United States
Germany
Ireland
Austria
New Zealand
United Kingdom
Canda
Australia
Finland
Norway
1
Netherlands
Denmark
Sweden
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Source: Commitment to Development Index 2007
Center for Global Development.
Key Points
• Reducing global poverty requires resources and a supportive, enabling environment, including opportunities to improve livelihoods through access to markets,
technology and jobs.
• The Doha round of trade negotiations should include provisions to help developing countries build trade opportunities with developed countries, specifically
duty-free, quota-free access, special and differential treatment, and technical
assistance and aid for trade.
• Current U.S. immigration policies fail to recognize the important role migration
and remittances can play both for the United States and developing countries.
• The transfer of technologies across international borders can provide important
benefits to people in the developing world. But current trade policies, specifically the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), create
unnecessary barriers to much-needed technologies.
Eric Muñoz is a policy analyst for Bread for the World Institute.
Abstract
Providing aid is just one way
that developed countries can
support developing countries in
their efforts to reduce poverty and
improve human development.
Policies on trade, immigration,
and transferring technologies,
especially essential medicines,
also reflect their commitment to
development.
Developed countries have
agreed to establish a policy environment that does not undermine
efforts for developing countries to
achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Goal Eight
calls for developed countries to ensure greater coherence among an
array of policies critical to achieving the MDGs. On policies related
to trade, migration, and intellectual property rights, the United
States and other rich countries are
not living up to this agreement.
Improving its policies in trade,
migration, and intellectual property rights would not only prove
that the United States is fully committed to global development, but
also would increase the effectiveness of U.S. foreign assistance.