Yiu, L., Parker, J.E., Saner, R. “Best Practice: Tri-Continental (Europe, North-America, Asia) ODL Programme of 3M Corporation’s Asia-Pacific Research Laboratories” in the Proceedings of the Lisbon 2000 European Conference on ODL Networking for Quality Learning, 19-21 June 2000, p. 195-199.
Niederberger, A.A. & Saner, R. 2005. Exploring the relationship between FDI flows and CDM potential. Transnational Corporations, 14 (1): 1-40 UNCTAD FDI-CDM
Staehelin-Witt, E., Saner, R., & Pfeifer, B.W. 2005. Negotiating environmental conflicts: Economic, sociological, and legal aspects of environmental negotiations in the Alpine region. Zurich: vdf Hochschulverlag AG an der ETH Zürich. Available at
Yiu, Lichia; Saner, Raymond; Yong, Jiong; “Stakeholder Analysis of Trans-Border Regional Cooperation on Environmental Protection in Northeast Asia”, Social Strategies (Ed. Trappe, Paul), Vol. 36, pp. 324-339, 2002. Article
Saner, R.; Jauregui, S; Yiu,L; “Climate Change and Environmental Negotiations: Global and Local Dynamics”; LosAmigos del Libro, La Paz, 2001. (308 pages). More information, here
“Trade in educational services (ES) is a potentially very lucrative source of revenue for a country and its schools, universities and training providers. For example, exports of ES and their respective share of all exported services in 2000 amounted to 10.28 Billion USD (3.5%) for the USA and 2.155 Billion USD (11.8%) for Australia. Looking […]
Trade in Educational Services (ES) is affecting the interests of many countries in trade, economics, education and culture resulting in heated debates between government representatives, private sector investors, teacher unions and student associations on how to approach liberalisation of this sector, if at all. What ever the approach, an agreement on GATS/ES should be sufficiently flexible to safeguard the multi-functional nature of education, as well as the different needs of developing countries’ education without falling into the trap of “managed trade” nor succumbing to short-term myopic protectionism.
The authors describe the complexities of the WTO/GATS negotiations on trade in educational services and outline ways on how negotiations of GATS/ES could be successfully completed within the timeframe of the Doha Round.
CSEND conducted research on how to best include employment and decent work into the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP), the successor instrument of the IMF/WB following their failed Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP). CSEND drafted a major document titled “Decent Work and Poverty Reduction Strategies: An ILO Advocacy Guidebook” and developed a 24 role negotiation simulation […]
New publication titled “Business – Government – NGO Relations: Their Impact on Global Economic Governance” in the book “Global Governance and Diplomacy: World’s Apart ?”, edited by Andrew F. Cooper, Brian Hocking and William Maley. 2008, Palgrave Macmillan
Saner, Raymond; Paez, Laura; “Technical Assitance to Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in the context of the Doha Development Round (DDR): High risk of failure”, (accepted for publication in Journal of World Trade,) spring 2006 Article