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  The future of Norway’s GSP system

  Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2005

  This report provides a comprehensive review of the Norwegian Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) system, including options for change.The main recommendations from the report include:for manufacturing, tariffs should be reduced to zero on an MFN basis; i.e.
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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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  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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  Planting the rights seed: a human rights perspective on agriculture trade and the WTO

  Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 2005

  The report critically examines the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Agriculture (AoA).
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  Sugar polices: opportunities for change

  Adapting to Change [The World Bank Group], 2004

  Sugar is one of the most policy distorted of all commodities, and the European Union, Japan, and the United States are among the worst offenders.
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  Agriculture: remarkable turn-around from Cancun

  International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2004

  This article from the Bridges Weekly Trade Digest provides an early summary of Annex A of the 31 July WTO General Council Decision.
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  Agricultural trade

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  This briefing (3rd in the IDS Trade and Development Background Briefings) explores issues around agricultural trade, focusing on the effects of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture on developing countries and on key issues for the next round of negotiations.Claims include:the Agreement on Agriculture began the process of establishing a framework of trade rules for agriculture simi
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  Effects of North American Free Trade Agreement on agriculture and the rural economy

  Economics, Statistics and Market Information System, USDA Economics and Statistics System, 2002

  This report evaluates the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on U.S. agriculture and the rural economy. The report begins with a broad overview of the impact of NAFTA on U.S. agriculture, and follows with a more detailed account of the effects on a number of commodities.Findings include:U.S.

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