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Looming crisis: the threat of industrial trade liberalisation negotiations at the WTO on India's textile and leather industries
ActionAid International, 2005This briefing paper argues that these WTO negotiations on non-agricultural market access (NAMA) could threaten the jobs of thousands of workers in infant industries and traditional sectors of employment in developing countries, wiping out livelihoods for many poor and vulnerable communities.With a particular focus on India the brief finds that:while trade liberalisation policies in IndiDocumentDown the plughole: why bringing water into WTO services negotiations would unleash a development disaster
ActionAid International, 2005Poor countries are under intense pressure in the World Trade Organization's GATS negotiations to open their service markets and "progressively liberalise" key sectors – such as water delivery – to foreign corporations.DocumentThe WTO negotiations on non-agricultural market access: gender and the removal of industrial tariffs
International Gender and Trade Network, 2005This paper assesses the implications of the current non-agricultural market access (NAMA) negotiations for developing countries with a particular focus on the impact on women.DocumentDumping on the poor: the Common Agricultural Policy, the WTO and International Development
Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2005This paper critiques the EU's Common Agricultural Policy as a mechanism that promotes over-production and dumping of cheap goods that undercut local markets in developing countries. At the same time tariffs and other obstacles prevent agricultural producers in these countries from accessing the European markets for their own goods.DocumentTen Years of the WTO: subordinating development to free trade
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., 2005This paper critically looks back at 10 years of the World Trade Organisation. It argues that the WTO’s impact on the world’s poor has been overwhelmingly negative.DocumentAgricultural trade reform and the Doha development agenda
World Bank, 2005This working paper examines the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral trade reform over the next decade.DocumentThe Doha deindustrialisation agenda: non-agricultural market access negotiations at the WTO
War on Want, 2005This brief critically assessed the non-agricultural market access (NAMA) negotiations currently conducted at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).The brief finds that:NAMA negotiations are being rushed forward in order to achieve an ambitious level of trade liberalisation for the benefit of the world’s richest countriesthey are also designed to achieve the opening of industrial and maDocumentEU–ACP Economic Partnership Agreements: the effects of reciprocity
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005This briefing discusses the potential implications of the EPAs, as reflected in recent research from the IDS.DocumentThe Doha development agenda: impacts on trade and poverty
Overseas Development Institute, 2004This series of briefing papers summarises of the principal issues of the WTO round, how the outcome might affect poverty, the progress of the negotiations, and the impact on four very different countries.Briefing papers are:“Trade liberalisation and poverty reduction” analyses potential Doha reforms and their poverty reduction effects“Principal issues in the Doha negotiations” presDocumentWTO/GATS and economic development: key to "the new economy"
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2005This report outlines the programme on WTO/GATS and Economic Development which is part of a Strategic Institute Programme at CMI on Producer Services.The WTO/GATS programme covers three main issues:the adoption of information technology and its impact on supply chain managementthe impact of trade liberalisation (financial services, telecommunications and energy services in particularPages