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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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    Key agricultural issues in the post-Cotonou negotiations

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002
    This Paper discusses the well-established positions that have characterised the EU–African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) debate on trade for the past five years. Negotiations have begun for a successor to the trade regime in the current Cotonou Agreement, with the new trade regime scheduled to be in place by 2008.
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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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    Pulverising pow(d)er: the impact of incoherent European policies on dairy farmers in Tanzania and Jamaica

    Centre for International Development Issues, University of Nijmegen, 2001
    The paper examines how Europe’s common agriculture policy (CAP) is operated and influences the livelihoods of dairy farmers in Tanzania and Jamaica in order to demonstrate how European policy can hamper the development of farmers in developing countries.
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    On the road to Cancún: a development perspective on EU trade policies

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003
    Part I: This section gives an outline of policy perspectives that inform EU trade policies as well as a development perspective in examining those policies. It discusses the issue of adjustment in the EU and evaluates the EU's track record in the liberalisation of key industries of interest to developing countries.
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    African horticulture is blooming - will it wither with international trade policy reform?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Horticulture is an African export success story, particularly in Kenya and Zimbabwe. Can producers maintain or improve upon their positions in highly competitive markets? Will changes in international trade policy make a difference? If so, what are the implications for African production and export strategies?
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    A development perspective on EU trade policies and their implications for Central and Eastern European countries

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2003
    This paper discusses the issue of adjustment in the EU and evaluates the EU track record in key industries of interest to developing countries. It also evaluates the EU commitment to environmentally sustainable policies and reviews the various EU technical regulations or social policies against the above two perspectives.
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    Milking the CAP: how Europe's dairy regime is devastating livelihoods in the developing world

    Oxfam, 2002
    EU surpluses of milk and milk products are dumped on world markets using costly export subsidies, which destroy people’s livelihoods in some of the world’s poorest countries.Dairy dumping is a worrying problem because milk producers in developing countries cannot compete effectively with European milk producers who are heavily subsidised by their governments.
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    Europe's double standards: how the EU should reform its trade policies with the developing world

    Oxfam, 2002
    The European Union has made much benefit to developing countries, but there is still a lot to do for reaching economic development and poverty eradication.This paper points out the worst features of EU trade policy, including:spending $41 billion a year on agricultural subsidies, regardless the negative effects that they can exert on developing countries economiesfailing to allow de
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    The great EU sugar scam: how Europe's sugar regime is devastating livelihoods in the developing world

    Oxfam, 2002
    Under the common agricultural policy (CAP), the EU has emerged as the world's largest exporter of white sugar. Subsidies and tariffs generate vast profits for big sugar processors and large farmers whilst vast surpluses are dumped on world markets.This briefing paper highlights that the EU's sugar regime is in opposition to the theory of comparative advantage.

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