Kevin Watkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3889022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Watkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Watkins |
| SIGNATURE | WATKINS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxfam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Child labour and education – A survey of slum settlements in Dhaka (Bangladesh)
Compare Forum
The three articles comprising this Forum bring together reflections from practitioners working on aspects of education marginalization – the International Non-Government Organizations Save the Children and Handicap International – and a global reflection on issues confronting the Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report in its focus on education inequalities, contributed by Kevin Watkins, its outgoing director at the time of writing. Note…
Trade Spat
Is the WTO Legit
Aid under threat
Debates over international aid have long been marked by unlikely marriages of convenience. Critics on the right have condemned development assistance as a perversion of market forces, a waste of resources and a source of corruption. Those on the left have broadly shared this view, albeit within a framework which sees aid as one element in a broader neo‐colonial project aimed at integrating southern states into a capitalist world economy. In the p…
Gatt
Debt relief for Africa
External debt remains a major obstacle to human development in sub‐Saharan Africa. Repayments on that debt swallow up $10bn annually, diverting on a massive scale the resources needed for investment in health, education, employment and economic recovery. These transfers from the world's poorest region are unacceptable and should be stopped. Yet in contrast to other developing regions and even eastern Europe, existing debt‐relief measures for sub‐…
Gatt and the Third World
Agriculture and food security in the Gatt Uruguay round
Launched in 1986, the General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade (GATT) Uruguay Round of international trade talks has been dominated by a confrontation between the US and the EC over farm policy reform. Both sides proclaim their commitment to devising a GATT regime which will bring an end to the anarchy in world agricultural markets, yet neither is willing to address the underlying cause of the present malaise: structural over‐production in their own …
Agriculture and food security in the Gatt Uruguay round
Launched in 1986, the General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade (GATT) Uruguay Round of international trade talks has been dominated by a confrontation between the US and the EC over farm policy reform. Both sides proclaim their commitment to devising a GATT regime which will bring an end to the anarchy in world agricultural markets, yet neither is willing to address the underlying cause of the present malaise: structural over‐production in their own …
Gatt
Child labour and education – A survey of slum settlements in Dhaka (Bangladesh)
Debt relief for Africa
External debt remains a major obstacle to human development in sub‐Saharan Africa. Repayments on that debt swallow up $10bn annually, diverting on a massive scale the resources needed for investment in health, education, employment and economic recovery. These transfers from the world's poorest region are unacceptable and should be stopped. Yet in contrast to other developing regions and even eastern Europe, existing debt‐relief measures for sub‐…
Gatt and the Third World
Agriculture and food security in the Gatt Uruguay round
Launched in 1986, the General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade (GATT) Uruguay Round of international trade talks has been dominated by a confrontation between the US and the EC over farm policy reform. Both sides proclaim their commitment to devising a GATT regime which will bring an end to the anarchy in world agricultural markets, yet neither is willing to address the underlying cause of the present malaise: structural over‐production in their own …
Gatt and the Third World
Gatt
Debt relief for Africa
External debt remains a major obstacle to human development in sub‐Saharan Africa. Repayments on that debt swallow up $10bn annually, diverting on a massive scale the resources needed for investment in health, education, employment and economic recovery. These transfers from the world's poorest region are unacceptable and should be stopped. Yet in contrast to other developing regions and even eastern Europe, existing debt‐relief measures for sub‐…
Aid under threat
Debates over international aid have long been marked by unlikely marriages of convenience. Critics on the right have condemned development assistance as a perversion of market forces, a waste of resources and a source of corruption. Those on the left have broadly shared this view, albeit within a framework which sees aid as one element in a broader neo‐colonial project aimed at integrating southern states into a capitalist world economy. In the p…
Is the WTO Legit
Trade Spat
Compare Forum
The three articles comprising this Forum bring together reflections from practitioners working on aspects of education marginalization – the International Non-Government Organizations Save the Children and Handicap International – and a global reflection on issues confronting the Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report in its focus on education inequalities, contributed by Kevin Watkins, its outgoing director at the time of writing. Note…
Child labour and education – A survey of slum settlements in Dhaka (Bangladesh)
Political science (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Business (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · International trade (3 works) · Developing country (2 works) · Development economics (2 works)