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  Globalisation’s bystanders: does trade liberalisation hurt countries that do not participate?

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005

  This paper examines the effects of trade liberalisation on countries that do not participate in the global liberalisation efforts.
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  EU–ACP Economic Partnership Agreements: the effects of reciprocity

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This briefing discusses the potential implications of the EPAs, as reflected in recent research from the IDS.
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  Race to the bottom: exploitation of workers in the global garment industry

  Norwegian Church Aid, 2005

  This paper explores the race to the bottom in garment producing countries.
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  NAFTA's promise and reality: lessons from Mexico for the Hemisphere

  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003

  The report has two objectives: to determine how quality of life in Mexico has been affected by trade liberalisation in North America. It focuses on the microlevel of people and their communities, on changes in household income, paychecks, rural employment and agricultural production.
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  Understanding the issues: what's the matter with trade?

  Norwegian Church Aid, 2005

  This is a set of papers that address the questions: do equal rules really allow poor producers to receive a fair share of the trade wealth and does the current free trade system represent equal rules at all?
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  The United States-Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement falls short on workers' rights

  Human Rights Watch, 2005

  This brief assesses the impact of the proposed United States-Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (D.R.-CAFTA) on workers’ human rights.Main findings of the report are:the D.R.-CAFTA fails to require compliance with even the most basic internationally recognised labour rights norms and specifically fails to protect women workers against discriminationthe labour ri
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  Gender and labour market liberalisation in Africa

  African Labour Research Network, 2004

  This report examines the liberalisation of the labour market in Africa from a gender perspective. It analyses current economic and labour policies of seven African countries to see their impact on the labour force and the organised labour movement in general, and women in particular.
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  Economic integration and the environment in El Salvador

  Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2004

  This paper examines the new environmental dynamics in el Salvador that resulted from shift from an agro-exporting economy to a remittance-driven urban based economy in the 1980s and 1990s.Main findings of the paper include:in the 1970s, rural environmental problems (deforestation, land degradation and pollution from agro-chemicals) were the most pressing issuescurrently, with increa
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  Globalisation and the environment: lessons from the Americas

  Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2004

  This report examines the environmental impacts of trade reform policies in the Americas. It is the product of a series of studies by the "Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas", which includes development and environmental economists from the regions.The report shows that in Latin America the environment has so far not profited from globalisation.
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  The disease of the day: acute treatyitis: the myths and consequences of free trade agreements with the US

  GRAIN, 2004

  While the World Trade Organization (WTO) (following the failure of negotiations in Cancun) and FTAA have been said to be floundering, the paper argues that another epidemic of 'treatyitis' has been spreading, that is the flourishing of bilateral free trade agreements initiated by the US, EU, Australia, Canada, and the Asia-Pacific economic block.The paper argues that this is an attempt to speed

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