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United Nations materials:

Research and Debates: Perspectives on Globalization (Global Compact Website, United Nations)

Globalization and its impact on the full enjoyment of human rights: Progress report submitted by J. Oloka-Onyango and Deepika Udagama (United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, 2 July 2001)

Kofi Annan Says People Do Not Wish to Reverse Globalization but They Aspire to a Different and Better Kind Than We Have Today (Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, 28 Jan. 2001)

Redirecting globalization for benefit of the masses (Nitin Desai, UN Under-Secretary-General, Earth Times, 2 Jan. 2001)

Reining in globalization for the benefit of all countries (Gary Howe, Director of Eastern and Southern Africa Division  of the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development [IFAD], Earth Times, 15 Dec. 2000)

Help the Third World help itself (Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General, in Wall Street Journal, 29 Nov. 1999)

ILO materials: 

Democratising Globalization: the Role of the ILO (International Labour Organization)

Globalization, Liberalization and Social Justice: Challenges for the International Community (Michel Hansenne, Director-General, International Labour Organization, 28 Oct. 1998)

Governance of Globalisation: ILO's Contribution (Robert Kyloh, International Labour Organization, 1998) 

International Monetary Fund materials:

Globalization: Valid Concerns? (Stanley Fischer, Deputy Director, IMF, 26 Aug. 2000)

IMF Says Prosperity from Globalization (World Bank Development News, 23 Aug. 2000) 

International Finance Corporation materials:

Globalization, Done Right, Is What Developing Countries Want (Peter Woicke [a managing director of World Bank and Executive Vice President of International Finance Corporation], International Herald Tribune, 20 Sep. 2000)