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Discusses the industry-based voluntary code of environmental conduct, the role of industry and government in its development and application, and implications for developing countries' participation in establishment of international environmental goals of clean production and technology.

This article focuses on the involvement of Africa and environmental nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in attempting to halt the interna tional toxic waste trade. It shows that in addition to states, non-state actors have been important players in the international politics of the waste trade. An Africa-NGO alliance that formed in the late 1980s was able to influence the outcome of several international waste trade conventions. Despite regu lations designed to keep waste imports out of Africa, waste traders were able to circumvent existing rules and continue their trade with the continent. In response to this persistence of the waste trade, a growing coalition of environmental NGOs and developing country states has recently been successful in bringing about a global ban on the waste trade between Organization forEconomic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries and non-OECD countries. Whether or not this ban will be effective will depend to a great degree on the strength of the coalition of NGOs and states supporting the ban.

AbstractThis paper examines the factors which affected the implementation of structural adjustment reforms in Guinea, a country which to date has received little attention, but which has experienced many of the classic problems of policy reform implementation. It is found that while recent attention given to domestic factors such as governance and institutional capacity in explaining the poor adjustment implementation record in Africa are justified, external factors such as donor behaviour and world market conditions played an equally important role. These domestic and external factors in Guinea affected not only the adoption and actual implementation of specific reform measures, but also the state's overall commitment to maintaining the adjustment programme once it was in place.

While recent attention given to domestic factors such as governance and institutional capacity in explaining the poor adjustment implementation record in Africa are justified, external factors such as donor behaviour and world market conditions played an equally important role. These domestic and external factors in Guinea affected not only the implementation of reform measures, but also the state's overall commitment to maintaining the adjustment programme once it was in place. (DSE)

A series of crises unfolded in the latter part of the first decade of the 21st Century which combined to exacerbate already profound conditions of global economic inequality and poverty. This book offers answers to questions raised about the role of global governance in the attenuation and amelioration of world poverty and inequality