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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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  A round for free: how rich countries are getting a free ride on agricultural subsidies at the WTO

  Oxfam, 2005

  This paper argues that previous WTO policies have failed to cut subsidies that lead to dumping, and that the the Doha Round of negotiations is again giving rich countries a free ride to continue dumping subsidised produce on poor countries. Meanwhile, developing countries will lose many concessions, such as in market access.
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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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  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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  WTO agreement on agriculture: a decade of dumping

  Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 2005

  This paper documents the widespread dumping of agricultural products by global agribusiness companies based in the United States and European Union. It provides an extensive appendix with data and calculations from 1990 to 2003 for five commodities grown in the U.S. and sold on the world market: wheat, corn (maize), soybean (soya), rice and cotton.An examination of U.S.
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  Accomplishing a sustainable agricultural model for Europe through the reformed CAP: Sugar sector reform

  European Union, 2004

  This paper discusses the recent findings of the Common Agricultural Policy Commission set up to examine the current sugar trade regime.The Commission proposes the following measures:a significant reduction, in two steps, of the institutional support price for EUsugar with the abolition of intervention and the introduction of a reference pricethe introduction of partial compensation
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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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  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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  Trade and development at the WTO: learning the lessons of Cancun to revive a genuine development round

  International Development Committee, UK, 2003

  Following the collapse of the WTO’s 5th Ministerial meeting in September 2003, this House of Commons report concludes that a number of important lessons must be learnt if a development round is to be achieved.The paper finds that the collapse occurred as a result of:process matters, including time, timing and organisationgeo-political matters, including new country-groups and the fa
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  Policy (in) coherence in European Union support to developing countries: a three country case study

  ActionAid International, 2003

  What is the impact of a range of EU policies on poor people in Bangladesh, Brazil and Kenya? This paper examines key policy areas (including trade, aid, agricultural policies and support to Foreign Direct Investment) to assess the coherence of EU policy in supporting development.

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