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Searching with a thematic focus on Agriculture and food, Trade Policy, Agriculture trade policy, Trade Liberalisation, Liberalisation Impacts, Liberalisation Impacts Agriculture

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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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    Can liberalisation boost farming in Southern Africa?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Have structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) reduced discrimination against agriculture in southern Africa? Does price liberalisation, by increasing production and employment really reduce poverty and the incentive to migrate to towns and cities? Or are deeper changes needed?
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    U.S. dumping on world agricultural markets: can trade rules help farmers?

    WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2003
    Dumping, the practice of selling products at prices far below their production costs, is a serious distortion for developing countries’ markets, because it threatens their food security, rural livelihood, poverty reduction and trade.This happens essentially for two reasons:imports of dumped products can drive developing country farmers out of their businessagricultural producers who
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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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