New Issue: Credit Cruch + Exchange Rate Policy + Global Imbalances + Girls Labour + Vital Signs

* The Most Recent Global Financial Crisis. From market turmoil to credit crunch
Almost exactly ten years after the Asian crisis, the world is again confronted with a veritable financial crisis. This time the harbingers arise on the other side – the USA rather than East Asia. Whereas ten years ago a real estate bubble in Thailand burst, triggering the flight of international speculative capital, today it is the fallout of the real estate crisis in the USA which threatens the financial markets. By Rainer Falk
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Also in WDEV Issue 5/Sep-Oct 2007:

* Child Labour: New ILO Study on Girls in Mining. Out of sight
A new study of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) shows that not only are children still being forced to work in mines, but many of them are girls. It is child labour in its worst form: Young girls risk permanent injury from carrying heavy loads of rock and contamination from nerve-damaging mercury. Without a chance to go to school, they are locked into a life of poverty. WDEV presents the report.
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* Vital Signs: World Record Levels of Consumption. EU should raise pressure on US

* What the G5 Expects from Dialogue with the G8: Joint position paper for the Heiligendamm Process

* TDR 2007: New Global Exchange Rate Arrangements Needed

The European Civil Society Round-Up

* Latests posts in WDEV's news blog:
+ Oxfam: Six million more teachers, doctors and nurses needed
+ EU appeal at WTO Panel seeks wo weaken Brazil's green laws
+ Controversial mining projects: Weaknesses of IFC standards
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