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  Pulverising pow(d)er: the impact of incoherent European policies on dairy farmers in Tanzania and Jamaica

  Centre for International Development Issues, University of Nijmegen, 2001

  The paper examines how Europe’s common agriculture policy (CAP) is operated and influences the livelihoods of dairy farmers in Tanzania and Jamaica in order to demonstrate how European policy can hamper the development of farmers in developing countries.
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  Dumping: blocking the trade escape route from poverty?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  What is the impact of the European Union’s (EU) agricultural subsidies on the livelihoods of producers in developing countries? Is there evidence that dumping – the practice of exporting goods at prices far below the cost of production – is damaging domestic markets in the south?
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  On the road to Cancún: a development perspective on EU trade policies

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  Part I: This section gives an outline of policy perspectives that inform EU trade policies as well as a development perspective in examining those policies. It discusses the issue of adjustment in the EU and evaluates the EU's track record in the liberalisation of key industries of interest to developing countries.
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  African horticulture is blooming - will it wither with international trade policy reform?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Horticulture is an African export success story, particularly in Kenya and Zimbabwe. Can producers maintain or improve upon their positions in highly competitive markets? Will changes in international trade policy make a difference? If so, what are the implications for African production and export strategies?
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  Common Agricultural Policy: devastating livelihoods in developing countries?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Milk production is the EU’s most important agricultural activity. In 2001, European citizens supported the dairy industry with Euro €16 billion (US $17 billion) through subsidies. But who benefits from this? How does the exporting of EU dairy surpluses affect developing countries? What reforms are needed?
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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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  Milking the CAP: how Europe's dairy regime is devastating livelihoods in the developing world

  Oxfam, 2002

  EU surpluses of milk and milk products are dumped on world markets using costly export subsidies, which destroy people’s livelihoods in some of the world’s poorest countries.Dairy dumping is a worrying problem because milk producers in developing countries cannot compete effectively with European milk producers who are heavily subsidised by their governments.
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  Europe's double standards: how the EU should reform its trade policies with the developing world

  Oxfam, 2002

  The European Union has made much benefit to developing countries, but there is still a lot to do for reaching economic development and poverty eradication.This paper points out the worst features of EU trade policy, including:spending $41 billion a year on agricultural subsidies, regardless the negative effects that they can exert on developing countries economiesfailing to allow de
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  The great EU sugar scam: how Europe's sugar regime is devastating livelihoods in the developing world

  Oxfam, 2002

  Under the common agricultural policy (CAP), the EU has emerged as the world's largest exporter of white sugar. Subsidies and tariffs generate vast profits for big sugar processors and large farmers whilst vast surpluses are dumped on world markets.This briefing paper highlights that the EU's sugar regime is in opposition to the theory of comparative advantage.
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  Price support at any price : costs and benefits of alternative agricultural policies for Poland

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  Poland's agriculture sector can defend its income only by becoming more efficient --- by relying less on price supports and reducing farm employment, among other things.Orlowski argues that Poland must choose an agricultural policy that promotes efficiency, structural change, and adjustment to the new market environment and eventual membership in the European Union.

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