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  Forthcoming changes in the EU banana and sugar markets: a menu ofoptions for an effective EU transitional package

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  Preferential access under the EU’s Sugar and Banana Protocols has supported large income transfers to a number of ACP countries. These transfers will be reduced under proposed reforms to the EU’s sugar and banana markets which are due to take place at the end of 2005.
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  Making trade work for development in 2005 : what the EU can do

  Oxfam, 2005

  In the run-up to the G8 meeting in Gleneagles, this Oxfam brief proposes a EU trade agenda for both the multilateral and bilateral arenas, which will enable the EU to ‘make poverty history’.
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  Growth and opportunity (African civil society perspectives on growth and opportunity)

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This paper captures perspectives of development activists in civil society and social movements in Africa.
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  Development cooperation European Union-Latin America: overview and prospects

  Forum on Europe's International Cooperation, 2004

  This publication brings together contributions by Latin American experts on five priority aspects in relations between EU and Latin America.
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  EU heroes and villains: which countries are living up to their promises on aid, trade, and debt?

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2005

  This paper considers the heroes and villains in the EU’s 25-member bloc in terns of their commitments to aid, trade and debt.Findings of the study include:25 years after the commitment to give 0.7 per cent of GNI as foreign aid, only Luxembourg, Sweden, the Netherlands and Denmark have reached the target and 21 countries are still below the benchmark, with Italy, Austria, Portugal and G
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  European Commission report on millennium development goals

  European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 2004

  The report provides information on the extent to which the EC has focused its strategies, procedures and instruments on the implementation of the Millennium Declaration and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
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  A changing EU: what are the development implications?

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2004

  In the light of important changes in the EU’s internal and external environment throughout the year 2004, the paper assesses the possible implications of such changes for the EU’s development policy.The changes in the EU’s internal and external environment include:a new political leadership, including Parliament elections, a new College of Commissioners and an expanded Council after the
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  Comparing EU free trade agreements: competition policy and state aid

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2004

  The aim of this short paper is to provide a an overview of competition policy and state aid provisions, of the various trade agreements (FTAs) recently concluded by the European Union with developing countries.All recent bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) concluded by the European Union (EU) have included provisions on competition issues, albeit to very different degrees of detail.
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  Political conditions in the Cotonou Agreement: economic and legal implications

  Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit, 2004

  The African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries have been entering into trade agreements with the European Union (EU) since the first Lomé Convention of 1975. The first Lomé Convention was replaced by a series of subsequent Lomé Conventions and then by the Cotonou Agreement of 2000 (Cotonou).
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  Dumping on the world: how EU sugar policies hurt poor countries

  Oxfam, 2004

  This paper details the issues surrounding the European Union’s policy with regards to the sugar market, discussing the implications for development countries.Highlights of the paper include:European Union sugar policies hamper global efforts to reduce povertyexport subsidies are used to dump five million tonnes of surplus sugar annually on world markets, destroying opportunities for

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