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  Agricultural trade reform and poverty reduction in developing countries

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2004

  This paper assesses the opportunities and challenges provided by the WTO’s Doha Development Agenda, particularly with regards to agricultural trade liberalisation and its impact on trade of low-income countries. Observations of the study include:consumers in developed countries are more concerned with food safety and the environment than with the price-raising effect of agricultural pro
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  Differentiation between developing countries in the WTO

  Swedish Board of Agriculture, 2004

  This paper analyses ways to differentiate between developing countries in the WTO, with special relevance to discussions on special and differential treatment and the ongoing multilateral trade negotiations on agriculture in the Doha Development Round.The author argues that differentiation between the developing countries within the WTO is almost the rule, rather than the exception and emphasis
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  An end to EU sugar dumping?: implications of the WTO panel ruling in the dispute against EU sugar policies brought by Brazil, Thailand, and Australia

  Oxfam, 2005

  This brief paper examines the implications of a ruling of the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement panel, which found that EU sugar subsidies contravene WTO rules.The paper presents findings from the ruling as follows:the EU exports of around 2.7 million tonnes of what the EU claims to be unsubsidised sugar (so-called non-quota or 'C' sugar).
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  The effect of WTO and FTAA on agriculture and the rural sector in Latin America

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This paper examines two alternative versions of further trade liberalisation; one representing free trade world wide, the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the other a Western hemisphere free trade bloc, Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
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  Global economic prospects 2004: realising the development promise of the Doha agenda

  Prospects for Development [World Bank], 2003

  This report presents a detailed overview of the world economy, and the near-term outlook. It also analyses central elements of the Doha Agenda that are important to developing countries.The overview of the world economy projects anaemic growth of 1.5 percent in 2003 in the industrialised world. It foresees better performance next year, as industrial countries' growth rises to 2.5 percent.
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  US producers reap cotton subsidies and destroy African livelihoods

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Massive US cotton subsidies are encouraging over-production and export dumping and driving down world cotton prices. What are the consequences for producers in developing countries? Are US subsidies illegal under WTO rules? If they are allowed to continue, will this put an end to hopes that agricultural exports could lift Africans out of poverty?
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  Impacts of trade liberalization under the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) of the World Trade Organization: a case study of rice

  Asia Pacific Research Network, 2002

  This paper asks whether or not Thailand is going to benefit from the multilateral trade mechanism according to the Agreement on Agriculture. More particularly, whether or not the small-scale farmers are going to benefit from the agreement.The paper demonstrates that, even as Thailand calls itself an ‘agricultural country’, agricultural products are valued only as commodities.
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  Trade and development at the WTO: issues for Cancún. Seventh Report of Session 2002–03

  UK Parliament, 2003

  This paper presents the UK Parliament’s recommendations for Cancun and for a genuine development round.Development-friendly agreements on specific issues:Agriculture: There must be substantial reductions in trade-distorting domestic support, export subsidies and tariffs, so that developing countries can trade their way out of poverty.
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  Introduction to the development box: finding space for development concerns in the WTO's agricultural negotiations

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2003

  This paper introduces the Development Box, a package of proposals made by a dozen or so developing countries concerned that existing WTO rules for agriculture are undermining food security and rural livelihoods in their countries. The Development Box (DB) offers possible exceptions to the trade rules to meet the needs of countries with few resources and urgent food security needs.
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  How important are market access issues for developing countries in the Doha agenda?

  Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2002

  The aim of this paper is that of going "back to basics", focusing on the importance of market access issues for developing countries in the WTO negotiations begun in Doha in 2001.The paper attempts to address the following questions:will developing countries gain from further reducing their applied rates in agriculture?Would be in their interest adding industrial goods among the sec

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