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Searching with a thematic focus on Trade Policy, Trade Liberalisation, Liberalisation Impacts, liberalisation impacts poverty

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  Looming crisis: the threat of industrial trade liberalisation negotiations at the WTO on India's textile and leather industries

  ActionAid International, 2005

  This briefing paper argues that these WTO negotiations on non-agricultural market access (NAMA) could threaten the jobs of thousands of workers in infant industries and traditional sectors of employment in developing countries, wiping out livelihoods for many poor and vulnerable communities.With a particular focus on India the brief finds that:while trade liberalisation policies in Indi
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  Trade liberalization and poverty in Nigeria: lessons from the past

  Global Development Network, 2005

  With increasing evidence showing that openness is beneficial to growth, Nigeria, along with other Less Developed Countries, is being encouraged to reduce tariffs in an attempt to be more open. Presently the Nigerian government is making efforts to fully participate in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) trade liberalisation scheme (TLS).
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  Down the plughole: why bringing water into WTO services negotiations would unleash a development disaster

  ActionAid International, 2005

  Poor countries are under intense pressure in the World Trade Organization's GATS negotiations to open their service markets and "progressively liberalise" key sectors – such as water delivery – to foreign corporations.
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  Reality check: the distributional impact of privatization in developing countries

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2005

  This report looks at the privatisation of state-owned enterprises as a market reform. The volume brings together a comprehensive set of country studies on the effects of privatisation on people.
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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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  Trade policy, income risk and welfare

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2005

  This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and assesses the corresponding welfare effects. Based on data on Mexican workers it estimates individual income risk in various manufacturing sectors.
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  The Doha deindustrialisation agenda: non-agricultural market access negotiations at the WTO

  War on Want, 2005

  This brief critically assessed the non-agricultural market access (NAMA) negotiations currently conducted at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).The brief finds that:NAMA negotiations are being rushed forward in order to achieve an ambitious level of trade liberalisation for the benefit of the world’s richest countriesthey are also designed to achieve the opening of industrial and ma
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  The Doha development agenda: impacts on trade and poverty

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This series of briefing papers summarises of the principal issues of the WTO round, how the outcome might affect poverty, the progress of the negotiations, and the impact on four very different countries.Briefing papers are:“Trade liberalisation and poverty reduction” analyses potential Doha reforms and their poverty reduction effects“Principal issues in the Doha negotiations” pres
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  Does tariff liberalisation increase wage inequality? some empirical evidence

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2005

  The aim of this paper is to explores will happen to wage inequality, if tariff rates are reduced. The paper considers two types of wage inequality: between occupations, and between industries.
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  Agricultural trade reform and poverty reduction in developing countries

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2004

  This paper assesses the opportunities and challenges provided by the WTO’s Doha Development Agenda, particularly with regards to agricultural trade liberalisation and its impact on trade of low-income countries. Observations of the study include:consumers in developed countries are more concerned with food safety and the environment than with the price-raising effect of agricultural pro

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