WTO
- Assisting meaningful participation for African countries in the WTO
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The WTO claims to be democratic. Countries with different socioeconomic and political weights and diverging interests can debate with each other. Yet African countries have always struggled to participate fully in this organisation. This manual aims to provide civil society organisations in sub-Saharan Africa with tools and references to better understand and engage in the processes.
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Placing South Africa's agricultural trade with China in perspective
- ( R. Sandrey;T. Fundira / Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa , 2008)
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A feature of world trade over the last ten years has been the dramatic growth of China's trade with the world. This paper examines the agricultural component of Chinese trade with South Afric...
- Nigeria would benefit more from a FTA with the EU than from any likely Doha outcome
- ( R. Sandrey;H.G. Jensen;O. Oyewumi / Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa , 2007)
- Nigeria exports mainly fuels and mining products to the US and the EU. Nigerian exports have effectively duty-free access into both of these destinations while Nigerian tariffs are high by internation...
- Progress in Russia's WTO accession
- ( D. Tarr / World Bank Research , 2007)
- Arguing that there is no evidence of excessive demands on Russia due to political considerations, this paper summarises Russia's principal reform commitments undertaken as part of its World Trade Orga...
- Tools for African trade negotiators and activists
- ( M.C. Lebret;A. Alpha / Groupe de recherche et d'échanges technologiques , 2007)
- The World Trade Organisation (WTO) defines rules on the international trade in goods and services, and these rules have consequences for national policies. An arena for decision that claims to be demo...
- Monitoring aid for trade
- ( S. Wignaraja;C. Miras / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , 2007)
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This report takes stock of trends and developments in aid flows between 2002-2005 that are most closely related to aid for trade. Setting out the Wold Trade Organisation (WTO) monitoring framework,...
- Trade liberalisation has to be accompanied by measures in support of vulnerable children
- ( N. Jones;N.N. Anh;N.T. Hang / Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis , 2007)
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This paper examines the impact of trade liberalisation and WTO accession on child poverty in Vietnam. Trade increases wealth, but has varying impact on different members of a household. It affects ...
- Consolidating global efforts for trade justice
- ( Christian Aid , 2007)
- This advocacy guide examines what is meant by trade justice, what needs to change, and how the campaign will help make poverty history. It argues that forcing liberalisation on poor countrie...
- Making trade work for the poor
- ( W. Corrales-Leal / International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development , 2007)
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Trade-supported Strategies for Sustainable Development (TSDS) aim at putting trade liberalisation and other strategies to work in favour of sustainable development in developing countries. This rep...
- Inherent problems with the Doha round
- ( T. Hertel;R. Keeney;L.A. Winters / Vox , 2007)
- The multilateral trade negotiations of the WTO’s Doha Development Agenda appear once more to be on the brink of collapse. This article asks why agriculture, a sector that contributes so little t...
- WTO accession for Afghanistan ensuring sustainable development
- ( Oxfam , 2007)
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This paper looks at how Afghanistan can give itself the best possible chance of achieving WTO accession in a way that supports its efforts to develop sustainably. It argues that in o...
