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  Forthcoming changes in the EU banana and sugar markets: a menu ofoptions for an effective EU transitional package

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  Preferential access under the EU’s Sugar and Banana Protocols has supported large income transfers to a number of ACP countries. These transfers will be reduced under proposed reforms to the EU’s sugar and banana markets which are due to take place at the end of 2005.
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  EU sugar reform; the implications for the development of LDCs

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This study argues that the granting of unlimited duty-free access under the EBA (Everything But Arms) Agreement will coincide with reform of the EU sugar regime, which is expected to lead to significant price reductions in the EU market.
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  Reform of the sugar regime in the European Union

  International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity, 2005

  This paper proposes a pro-development reform of the EU sugar market order.
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  People’s guide to the Pacific’s Economic Partnership Agreement: Negotiations between the Pacific Islands and the European Union pursuant to the Cotonou Agreement 2000

  EpaWatch, 2005

  This report examines the negotiations between the European Union and the Pacific ACP states for a Pacific regional Economic Partnership Agreement.
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  EU–ACP Economic Partnership Agreements: the effects of reciprocity

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This briefing discusses the potential implications of the EPAs, as reflected in recent research from the IDS.
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  Six fallacies associated with agricultural liberalisation debunked

  Columbia University Library, 2004

  This paper aims to identify and subsequently debunk what it considers to be fundamental fallacies in the discourse on agricultural liberalisation.The myths identified by the paper are, as it is argued, held by a wide variety of actors, including the World Bank but also development NGOs such as Oxfam.
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  Six reasons to oppose EPAs in their current form

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2004

  This paper is a response from leading ACP and EU civil society organisations to some of the key arguments put forward in support of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) as currently envisaged by the EU.
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  Implications of the Cotonou Agreement for sustainable development in the ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific) countries and beyond

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2004

  This paper critically reviews the Cotonou Partnership Agreement (CPA) - the economic partnership agreement between the EU and a group of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. It explores the approach to development underlying the agreement.
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  The TDCA, EPAs and Southern African regionalism

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  This paper looks at the potential problem that EPAs (Economic Partnership Agreements) may create a division in the Southern African region.
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  The EU-ACP trade negotiations: why EPAs need a rethink

  Christian Aid, 2004

  This policy brief reviews the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), which were signed between the EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries as part of the Cotonou Agreement.The brief states that after failing to do so at the WTO talks, the EU now uses the EPAs to push free trade via the back door into the ACP countries.

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