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  Global monitoring report, 2006:Millennium Development Goals: strengthening mutual accountability, aid,trade, and governance

  World Bank, 2006

  This report comments on global progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), focusing on aid, trade and financial dimensions of the process. It notes that, despite commitments to raising aid effectiveness from the G8 and the Paris Declaration, the world is still far from achieving the MDGs - particularly Africa and South Asia.
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  WTO TRIPS Agreement

  International Labour Organization, 2003

  This briefing paper discusses the WTO TRIPS (Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights) agreement, an overarching framework for a multilateral approach to intellectual property rights (IPR).
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  A recipe for disaster: will the Doha Round fail to deliver for development?

  Oxfam, 2006

  As another deadline (Ju;y 2006) approaches in the Doha Round of trade negotiations, this timely report argues that, unless the current offers from those involved in the Doha negotiating process change, developing countries would be better off missing the current deadline and waiting longer for a new set of rules.
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  A depreciating asset, too high a price: the implications of the decision to end EU export subsidies by 2013: and why dumping will continue

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2006

  This brief critically examines the draft agreement reached at the end of the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial by the European Union to put and end date of 2013 on its export subsidies.
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  South Asian positions in the WTO Doha Round: in search of a true development agenda

  Consumer Unity and Trust Society, India, 2005

  Bringing together contributions of five research organisations in five developing countries - Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka – this book highlights the concerns of South Asian countries regarding the WTO Doha Round, and provides information and analysis on the main agenda items facing developing countries in future negotiates on the WTO.Chapters of the book include:"Ag
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  Hong Kong Ministerial of the Doha Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations: achieving a low-level equilibrium

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2006

  The article assesses the progress or lack thereof made during the WTO's Hong Kong Ministerial Conference and monitors the multilateral trade negotiations in the Doha Round.
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  General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and water

  Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 2006

  This article argues that the WTO-administered General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) poses an increasingly serious threat to the sustainable and equitable management of scarce water resources globally, and in developing countries in particular.The article highlights that discussions on water within the GATS have so far focused on privatising drinking water supply and opening the market t
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  Global and EU agricultural trade reform: what is in it for Tanzania, Uganda and Sub-Saharan Africa?

  Trinity College, Dublin, 2005

  This discussion paper focuses on the effects of total agricultural trade liberalisation (TAL) in Uganda and Tanzania using the Agricultural Trade Policy Simulation Model (ATPSM) which estimates the effects of total agricultural liberalisation (TAL) on:prices and terms of trade on changes in supplydemand and trade flowson welfare effects for producers and consumers.Estim
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  Is the WTO the only way? safeguarding multilateral environmental agreements from international trade rules and settling trade and environment disputes outside the WTO

  Friends of the Earth, 2004

  Intended for governments, this policy brief recommends other fora, outside of the WTO, for debating and settling the relationship between trade and environmental issues in particular the principles dictating the WTO/MEA relationship and for settling disputes between trade and environment matters.It begins by illustrating what it sees as the failure both of the current WTO negotiating process to
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  Special and differential treatment under the GATS

  OECD Development Centre, 2006

  This report sets out the particular approach to special and differential treatment (SDT) in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). In particular, the report explores how the degree of flexibility afforded to all Members under the GATS shapes its approach to SDT. Further, the report analyses the current proposals for improving SDT provisions in the context of the GATS.

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