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    Mercosur and the behavior of labor markets in Argentina and Uruguay

    Universidad Torcuato di Tello, Argentina, 2002
    This paper describes the evolution of labour markets in Argentina and Uruguay since Mercosur came into effect in 1991.
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    The WTO in 2003: structural shifts, state-of-play and prospects for the Doha Round

    Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, 2003
    Much has changed in the transition from the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The WTO goes deeper and wider than its predecessor the GATT, and the Doha Round of negotiations proposes to enter territories such as investment, competition and environment-related policies.
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    The trade, debt and finance nexus: at the cross-roads of micro- and macroeconomics

    World Trade Organization, 2004
    This paper seeks to provide some clarification of the complex relationship between trade, debt and finance, and how the WTO is part of a national and international effort to address some of the challenges raised by these relationships.The paper finds that there are a few areas of concern that should be addressed to the WTO:trade liberalisation as a source of growthfurther examinatio
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    Liberalisation of rural poverty: the Indian experience

    Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2004
    The generally accepted major goals of economic policy in India have been growth, price stability, and economic justice. A price rise signifies a fall in purchasing power, if there is no commensurate increase in income. Price rises hurt the poor more and harm the goal of social justice.
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    Global Economic Prospects 2005: trade, regionalism and development

    Prospects for Development [World Bank], 2005
    The proliferation of regional trade agreements is fundamentally altering the world trade landscape. The number of agreements in force surpasses 200 and has risen eight-fold in two decades. Today as much as 40 percent of global trade takes place among countries that have some form of reciprocal regional trade agreement.
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    Trading accountability: business, trade and investment policy and sustainable development

    AccountAbility, 2004
    This report looks beneath the discussions on the overarching architecture of multilaterally negotiated trade rules, into the everyday trade and investment decisions, in order to get a better basis for determining how approaches to trade and investment policy can support sustainable development within competitive international markets.By exploring how the interaction of individual companies with
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    Trade and Development Report 2004

    United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2004
    The key message of this years Trade and Development Report, is that strategies based on the 'openness model' are not sufficient to lead to development through integration into the world economy.
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    Fiscal policy and growth in Africa: fiscal federalism, decentralization and the incidence of taxation

    UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003
    The paper investigates the tax reforms undertaken in a sample of randomly selected five African countries, taken together, namely Egypt, Senegal, Gabon, Kenya and Zambia. Reflecting the government's greatly expanding role in the economy, total public sector expenditure increased rapidly over the last two decades. However, public sector revenue growth has not matched public expenditure growth.
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    Towards an East Asian free trade area

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2003
    This paper discusses the process and effects of East Asian countries embracing free trade agreements (FTA), with the removal of tariffs and non-tariff barriers on international trade between member countries.
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    Comparing EU free trade agreements: investment

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2004
    This paper discusses and compares a number of free trade agreements the EU holds, namely, The Euro-Mediterranean Association Agreements, EU-Mexico Global Agreement and the EU-Chile Association AgreementAmong the authors findings are:All EU Free Trade Agreements stop short of including protection provisions such as expropriation and compensation clausesdisagreement between EU Membe

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