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    International agriculture and trade report

    Economics, Statistics and Market Information System, USDA Economics and Statistics System, 1999
    Drawing on original foreign source materials, each full-text report in this series explains how basic forces are changing agriculture and agricultural trade in selected regions of the world; anticipates short- and long-term production, consumption and trade and policy trends of the region's key commodities.
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    Government's role in Pakistan agriculture : major reforms are needed

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    The proper role of Pakistan's government in the agriculture sector should be to encourage the development of a smoothly functioning market, through institutional and regulatory reform that facilitates market efficiency and private sector activities.
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    Price support at any price : costs and benefits of alternative agricultural policies for Poland

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    Poland's agriculture sector can defend its income only by becoming more efficient --- by relying less on price supports and reducing farm employment, among other things.Orlowski argues that Poland must choose an agricultural policy that promotes efficiency, structural change, and adjustment to the new market environment and eventual membership in the European Union.
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    Environment benefits from removing trade restrictions and distortions: background for WTO negotiations

    Overseas Development Institute, 1999
    The interaction between environmental policies and trade policies emerged as an issue at the end of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in 1994.
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    Agricultural trade and rural development in the Middle East and North Africa: recent developments and prospects

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
    More robust, dynamic growth could significantly boost sustainable economic growth and rural development in countries in the Middle East and North Africa with a comparative advantage in agriculture. But high levels of protection in many of those countries contribute to overvalued exchange rates and a significant bias against agriculture.
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    Analysis of policy reforms and structural adjustment programs in Malawi with emphasis on agriculture and trade

    Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996
    This study’s emphasis on agriculture’s elevated role in Malawi’s medium-term adjustment strategy and its articulation of the sector’s key role as the engine of growth and employment aptly makes an important point. Dr.
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    China's Unfinished Open-Economy Reforms: Liberalisation of Services

    OECD Development Centre, 1999
    During the 1990s, China has experienced a surge in imports of services, particularly those of communication, insurance and other business services, despite the fact that the authorities have maintained a plethora of restrictive measures limiting access to the service sector.
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    Ethical trade and sustainable rural livelihoods

    Ethical Trade and Natural Resources Programme, NRI, 1998
    Explores the actual and potential contribution ethical trade can make to the achievement of sustainable rural livelihoods. Summary report includes a description of ethical trade (Section 2), followed by an analysis of the building blocks and trade-offs that affect participation in ethical trade (Section 3).

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