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  Social impact of international trade and multinational corporations activities on the people of the Niger Delta of Nigeria: a comparative analysis by gender, generation and socio-cultural differences

  Global Development Network, 2002

  For nearly three decades, petroleum production and consumption has probably brought out both the best and worst of modern civilization in Nigeria.
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  GM crops: going against the grain

  ActionAid International, 2003

  This paper asks: Do GM crops help eradicate poverty? Do GM crops meet the needs of poor farmers? Do they threaten basic rights? Do GM crops threaten biodiversity? Do GM crops enhance informed choice and participation for poor people?Conclusion: The widespread adoption of GM crops seems likely to exacerbate the underlying causes of food insecurity, leading to more hungry people, not fewer.
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  Environment and trade: a handbook

  Trade, Investment and Sustainable Development Programme, IISD, 2000

  This handbook focuses on how trade can affect the environment, for better and for worse, and how environmental concern can work through the trading system to foster or frustrate development, in both rich and poor countries.The paper argues that it is possible, but by no means automatic, that trade and environmental policies should support each other in achieving their objectives.
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  A development perspective on EU trade policies and their implications for Central and Eastern European countries

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2003

  This paper discusses the issue of adjustment in the EU and evaluates the EU track record in key industries of interest to developing countries. It also evaluates the EU commitment to environmentally sustainable policies and reviews the various EU technical regulations or social policies against the above two perspectives.
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  Aviation and the environment: using economic instruments

  2003

  This is an outline document of the options available to the UK government in ensuring that the aviation industry is encouraged to take account of, and where appropriate reduce, its contribution to global warming, local air and noise pollution.The report states that the government's objectives for aviation include sustainability and the polluter pays principle.
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  WTO and product-related environmental standards

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2003

  This article examines, in the Indian context, the issues of the linkage between exports from developing countries and the regulatory standards set by developed-country importers for food safety, quality and environmental norms.
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  Environment’s new role in U.S. trade policy

  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2002

  This policy briefing reviews the Trade Policy Act (TPA) of 2002 and highlights how it integrates environmental policy priorities into U.S.
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  Is trade good or bad for the environment?: sorting out the causality

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2001

  The authors ask whether economic growth eventually brings environmental improvement and whether cross-border integration helps or hurts in this process. That first question is the much-studied environmental Kuznet's curve, while the second is the focus of this paper.There is an apparent positive correlation between openness to trade and some measures of environmental quality.
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  Tourism and the environment in the Caribbean: an economic framework

  World Bank Publications, 2000

  The authors outline the ways in which tourism and the environment are linked. They point out that the economic benefits which tourism can bring to a country, can be severely curtailed by environmental degradation that makes a destination less attractive.The report discusses stakeholder incentives for addressing environmental problems.
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  Preliminary assessment of the environmental and social effects of trade in tourism

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2001

  Little is known about the environmental and social effects of liberalising services. Given the pace of globalisation and the growing importance of services trade, there is a case to be made for developing a better understanding of how further liberalisation of service-related activities could impact the environment and social well-being in countries engaged in that trade.

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