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Searching with a thematic focus on Trade Policy, Agriculture trade policy, Trade Liberalisation, Liberalisation Impacts

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  Non-reciprocal preference erosion arising from MFN liberalization in agriculture: what are the risks?

  World Trade Organization, 2006

  This paper estimates the risk of preference erosion for non-reciprocal preference recipients in the agricultural sector as a consequence of most-favoured nation (MFN) tariff cuts.
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  How freer trade can help feed the poor: an agenda for easing hunger worldwide by reducing trade protectionism

  International Monetary Fund, 2005

  This article for Finance and Development examines how trade policy can be harnessed to help reduce poverty and alleviate hunger and outlines an agenda to reduce food insecurity in developing countries.When considering food security, it argues, the Doha trade liberalisation talks need to shift the focus from how the trading system can be used to increase the degree of self-sufficiency to how it
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  No soft landing: as China opens its markets, US subsidies are making life hard for cotton farmers

  Oxfam, 2005

  This paper examines the dynamics of the world cotton market and highlights imbalances which have been detrimental for Chinese cotton farmers.
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  Agricultural liberalization in multilateral and regional trade negotiations

  Institute for the Integration for Latin America and the Carribean, 2005

  For most Western Hemispheric (WH) countries, agriculture is a sensitive sector, absorbing a considerable portion of the economically active population and representing a high percentage of GDP and exports. Thus, agriculture is a strategic issue for all Latin American countries for both regional and multilateral trade negotiations.
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  Making agricultural trade reform work for the poor

  International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council, USA, 2005

  This paper brings together what is known about the link between agricultural trade reform and poverty alleviation, and examines how developing countries can successfully manage to open their economies while reducing poverty. It highlights the channels that link agricultural growth, rural development and poverty alleviation with trade.
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  Dumping on the poor: the Common Agricultural Policy, the WTO and International Development

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2005

  This paper critiques the EU's Common Agricultural Policy as a mechanism that promotes over-production and dumping of cheap goods that undercut local markets in developing countries. At the same time tariffs and other obstacles prevent agricultural producers in these countries from accessing the European markets for their own goods.
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  Ten Years of the WTO: subordinating development to free trade

  Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., 2005

  This paper critically looks back at 10 years of the World Trade Organisation. It argues that the WTO’s impact on the world’s poor has been overwhelmingly negative.
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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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  Agricultural trade reform and the Doha development agenda

  World Bank, 2005

  This working paper examines the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral trade reform over the next decade.
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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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