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    Make trade fair for the Americas: agriculture, investment and intellectual property: three reasons to say no to the FTAA

    Oxfam, 2003
    This paper focuses on the plan to integrate Latin America and the Caribbean into the Free Trade Area of the Americas and stresses that some areas of the plan go further than the most worrisome WTO rules - as in the case of investment and intellectual property.
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    Harnessing trade for development

    Oxfam, 2001
    Analysis of Oxfam's recommendations on trade reform and the WTO negotiation process, including radical reform of trade policies, agreements, and institutions at national, regional, and international levels, and a fundamental change of approach by governments.Oxfam opposes the launch of a 'comprehensive' new WTO round incorporating a range of new issues (such as investment, competition, and gove
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    Environment benefits from removing trade restrictions and distortions: background for WTO negotiations

    Overseas Development Institute, 1999
    The interaction between environmental policies and trade policies emerged as an issue at the end of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in 1994.
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    Trade and the environment

    World Trade Organization, 1999
    Argues that international economic integration and growth reinforce the need for sound environmental policies at the national and international level. International cooperation is particularly important in addressing transboundary and global environmental challenges beyond the control of any individual nation.Questions include: Is economic integration a threat to the environment?
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    Ethical trade: a review of developments and issues

    Natural Resources Institute, UK, 1999
    Ethical trade is a fast growing area in terms of literature and practice. This article takes an overview of what is happening in the field, including the unpublished debates of many of ethical trade’s key players. The paper identifies the common ground between sectoral approaches, examining work from forestry, fairtrade, agriculture and the apparel industry.
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    Ethical trade and sustainable rural livelihoods

    Ethical Trade and Natural Resources Programme, NRI, 1998
    Explores the actual and potential contribution ethical trade can make to the achievement of sustainable rural livelihoods. Summary report includes a description of ethical trade (Section 2), followed by an analysis of the building blocks and trade-offs that affect participation in ethical trade (Section 3).

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