Non-trade standards
- Food safety and agricultural health standards: challenges and opportunities for developing country exports
- This report summarises the findings of a World Bank research programme on sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures, which was designed to improve understanding of an emerging set of policy and commercial issues in the area of food safety and agricultural health.
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- Uganda’s capacity to comply with food safety requirements in export markets
- ( N. Rudaheranwa;M. Guloba;W. Nabiddo / Economic Policy Research Centre, Uganda , 2007)
- This paper undertakes a situational analysis of Uganda’s capacity to comply with food safety requirements in export markets, and quantifies cost estimates of capacity gaps. Tariff-related barrie...
- Trade regimes change required for sustainable land management
- ( M. Chamay;J. Hepburn;M. Gueye Kamal;M. Sugathan;E. Canigiani / Global Mechanism , 2007)
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Drylands have potential for economic activity now markets are emerging for natural products such as aloe or gum Arabic. However it is difficult to take advantage of these opportunities because ther...
- Effects of the SPS Agreement and the role of the WTO for the Lake Victoria fisheries
- ( International Gender and Trade Network , 2007)
- This is a PowerPoint presentation based on research of the Agreements on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement) and its implications on developing countries. Using a ca...
- The effect of regional liberalisation of technical barriers to trade
- ( S. Baller / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank , 2007)
- This study investigates trade effects of regional liberalisation of technical barriers to trade (TBTs) in the form of harmonisation and mutual recognition agreements (MRAs) for testing procedures. The...
- Plan for developing African trade capacity
- ( I. Foss / Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency , 2004)
- This detailed report takes as its context the rapid rise in global trade and the development of international supply chains, pointing out that Africa has seriously lagged behind in these processes, Af...
- Trade issues for the tsunami affected countries
- ( H.J. Lee; K. Logez / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , 2005)
- In the context of suggestions that trade could be a more useful instrument to assist the recovery of affected countries than aid transfers alone, this paper examines the economies of the affected coun...
- Ecolabelling as an environmental policy tool and as a potential trade barrier
- ( T. Rotherham / United Nations [UN] Environment Programme , 2005)
- This report reviews what is known about ecolabelling as an environmental policy tool and as a potential trade barrier. It focuses on five well-known ecolabelling programmes that incorporate environmen...
- The Doha Development Round has been turned on its head
- ( Oxfam , 2005)
- This brief argues that instead of promoting the integration of developing countries in the world trading system, the Development Round’ has been turned on its head: the focus has shifted from the deve...
- Developing countries can profit from rising food safety standards
- ( World Bank , 2005)
- The report summarises the findings of a World Bank research program on sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures, which was designed to improve understanding of an emerging set of policy and commercia...
- Assessing the trade and welfare effects of sanitary and phytosanitary measures in horticulture markets
- ( D. Roberts; B. Krissoff / Economic Research Service, USDA , 2004)
- During the Uruguay round of negotiations in 1995 WTO members agreed to multilateral rules governing the use of sanitary and phytosanitary measures (the SPS Agreement). These aimed to ensure that measu...
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