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

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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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  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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  The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture: a review of progress and challenges in the SADC region

  Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, 2003

  The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (URAA) bears important implications for developing countries, including those of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), whose agricultural sectors are critical to economic growth, poverty alleviation and food security.
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  The effects of trade liberalization on Jamaica's poor: an analysis of agriculture and services

  Women's EDGE, 2004

  This study analyses the direct effects of trade liberalisation on the life of Jamaica’s poor. In order to so it uses the so-called Trade Impact Review (TIR), an economic tool developed by the Women’s edge coalition to assess the impact of trade on Jamaica’s poor.The general outcome of the study is that women are the most negatively affected by the consequences of trade liberalisation.
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  Comparing EU free trade agreements: agriculture

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2004

  Free trade agreements between the European Union (EU) and its respective trading partners reinforce the Uruguay Round process on a bilateral basis.
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  Impact of trade liberalisation on Philippine corn prices

  SANREM CRSP West Africa, 2003

  This paper analyses Philippine corn prices and the policy environment for the crop in terms of import policies, tariffs, and other trade policies embodied in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade-World Trade Organization (GATT-WTO).Comparative analysis of trends between the pre-GATT years (1990-1995) and the post-GATT years (1996-2000) was done for the highest corn-producing regions in the
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  Trade liberalization and the structure of poverty in developing countries

  Global Trade Analysis Project, 2003

  This paper gives an analysis of the structure of poverty across a range of developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and explores how national poverty rates could be affected by global trade liberalization.Some of the main findings from this analysis are:the poor tend to be more specialized in the earnings sources than the non-poor, which makes them more vulnerable to tra
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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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  Impact of trade liberalisation on lives and livelihood of mountain communities in the northern areas of Pakistan

  South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment, 2002

  This paper examines the impacts of economic liberalisation, in particular the Agreement on Agriculture and TRIPs on mountain communities in northern Pakistan. It examines a) how these create new opportunities and threats affecting farmers rights, and b) what coping strategies have been developed in response.

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