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  China's accession to the WTO: impact on ethnic women in minority rural areas

  Country Analytic Work, 2004

  This study assesses the exact impact of the WTO entry on the minority women in ethnic rural areas in China.
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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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  Special and differential treatment in the WTO agricultural negotiations

  Trinity College, Dublin, 2005

  This paper examines the case for special and differential (S&D) treatment for developing countries within the WTO Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) and the particular instruments or exemptions which such a treatment should contain.It highlights that experience to date with the implementation of the AoA has revealed a number of major shortcomings:the huge imbalance in the amount of trade-di
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  Coping with trade reforms: implications of the WTO industrial tariff negotiations for developing countries

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2005

  This report examines the impact of trade liberalisation in industrial products as envisaged under the current WTO talks on developing countries. The study demonstrates that WTO proposals on industrial goods liberalisation could lead to a substantial gains for developing countries, particularly regarding exports.
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  WTO agreement on agriculture: a decade of dumping

  Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 2005

  This paper documents the widespread dumping of agricultural products by global agribusiness companies based in the United States and European Union. It provides an extensive appendix with data and calculations from 1990 to 2003 for five commodities grown in the U.S. and sold on the world market: wheat, corn (maize), soybean (soya), rice and cotton.An examination of U.S.
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  Agricultural trade reform and poverty reduction in developing countries

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2004

  This paper assesses the opportunities and challenges provided by the WTO’s Doha Development Agenda, particularly with regards to agricultural trade liberalisation and its impact on trade of low-income countries. Observations of the study include:consumers in developed countries are more concerned with food safety and the environment than with the price-raising effect of agricultural pro
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  The Development Round of trade negotiations in the aftermath of Cancun

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 2004

  This report presents an alternative way forward for the Doha Round.
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  The effect of WTO and FTAA on agriculture and the rural sector in Latin America

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This paper examines two alternative versions of further trade liberalisation; one representing free trade world wide, the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the other a Western hemisphere free trade bloc, Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
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  Impacts of trade liberalization under the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) of the World Trade Organization: a case study of rice

  Asia Pacific Research Network, 2002

  This paper asks whether or not Thailand is going to benefit from the multilateral trade mechanism according to the Agreement on Agriculture. More particularly, whether or not the small-scale farmers are going to benefit from the agreement.The paper demonstrates that, even as Thailand calls itself an ‘agricultural country’, agricultural products are valued only as commodities.
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  How important are market access issues for developing countries in the Doha agenda?

  Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2002

  The aim of this paper is that of going "back to basics", focusing on the importance of market access issues for developing countries in the WTO negotiations begun in Doha in 2001.The paper attempts to address the following questions:will developing countries gain from further reducing their applied rates in agriculture?Would be in their interest adding industrial goods among the sec

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