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  Agricultural trade reform and poverty in the Asia-Pacific: a survey and some new results

  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2008

  This working paper analyses the relationship between agricultural trade policy reform and poverty in the Asia-Pacific region. The paper assesses the potential economic implications of agricultural trade reform under the Doha Development Agenda, with a special focus on that region.
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  Effect of import liberalisation on tariff revenue in Ghana

  African Economic Research Consortium, 2008

  In contributing to the debate on the impact of trade liberalisation, this research study investigates the quantitative effect of import liberalisation on tariff revenue in Ghana.
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  Environmental priorities and trade policy for environmental goods: a reality check

  International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2008

  Environmental goods and services (EGS) as a subset of goods and services was singled out for attention in the Doha conference in 2001. However, there has been a lack of universally accepted definition on the scope of goods and services that would be taken up for liberalisation.
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  Making waves: opportunities for reclaiming development in the Pacific. Informing civil society responses to the free trade agenda

  Pacific Network on Globalisation, 2008

  The Pacific Island Countries currently face pressure to ‘integrate into the global economy’ through implementing new free trade agreements. Free traders argue that the Pacific will benefit from cheaper imports, increased investment in the region and improvements in efficiency of Pacific business and service suppliers.
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  Impact assessments of changing agricultural trade agreements and tariff barriers between South Africa and European Union

  AgEcon Search, 2008

  Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and the European Union (EU) are important trading partners in agricultural supplies. The Trade Development and Co-operation Agreement (TDCA) signed in 1999 paved the way for closer cooperation in trade of especially agricultural produce.
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  Determinants of agricultural protection in an international perspective: the role of political institutions

  AgEcon Search, 2008

  This paper studies the role of political institutions in determining the political success of agriculture in avoiding taxation or attracting government transfers in developing countries (DCs) and industrialised countries. It attempts to systematically analyse this determinant impact at both the theoretical and empirical levels.
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  Making trade policy in Latin America more pro-poor: is greater participation the answer?

  Overseas Development Institute, 2008

  Latin America has experienced increasing trade liberalisation and regional integration in the past. After that, countries have tried to replace a strategy of support for domestic infant industries through tariffs and other protectionist measures. However, there is a widespread view that the poor are over-represented among the losers.
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  Choosing sensitive agricultural products in trade negotiations

  Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations internationales, 2008

  In the Doha negotiations, there have been widespread demands for exceptions from, or flexibility in, the application of the agricultural tariff formulas. This working paper sheds light on some of the choices involved in defining flexibilities in trade negotiations. Mainly, two key questions are considered in the paper:
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  Current WTO negotiations under Doha Round: insights from CPD’s Geneva tracking mission

  Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2008

  This paper is the output of a tracking mission to Geneva undertaken by a group of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) researchers to assess the ongoing World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations. The paper makes an analysis of the state of play of negotiations at the WTO under the Doha Round (DR) as of March 2008, seeking to project the possible outcomes.
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  Implicit tariffs on imported dairy product components in the United States

  Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy, 2008

  The majority of the dairy products imported by the United States (US) are intermediate products used in food processing. This article examines the implications of the current tariff structure and the proposed changes under the Doha Round (DR), and how this tariff structure might change under a new trade agreement.

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