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  Trade Liberalization in a Dynamic Setting: Implications of a New WTO Round

  Brookings Institution, 1999

  Explores the impacts of a new WTO Round of trade liberalization over the period from 2000 to 2010, using a model that allows for short run unemployment, adjustment costs in capital formation, international flows of financial assets and forward looking expectations of the announced policy changes.
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  Why liberalization alone has not improved agricultural productivity in Zambia: the role of asset ownership and working capital constraints

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  In the early 1990s, Zambia initiated an ambitious program of liberalization that significantly opened the economy, shifting from a highly regulated and centralized to a more market-based and liberal economic paradigm.
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  The role of the IMF: a guide to the reports

  International Labour Organization, 2000

  Many of the discussions on a new international financial architecture that were spawned by the east Asian crisis have dealt with the future role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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  Fin(d)ing our way on trade and labor standards?

  International Labour Organization, 2001

  With the impasse over whether and how to link labor standards and trade agreements stretching into its eighth year, attention has turned to "monetary assessments," or fines, as alternatives to trade sanctions.Fines have the advantage of adding "teeth" to agreements on labor standards without impeding trade and may be more palatable to developing countries than trade measures.
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  Intellectual property needs and expectations of traditional knowledge holders

  World Intellectual Property Organization, 2000

  This Report presents information compiled by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) from nine fact-finding missions on the intellectual property (IP) needs and expectations of holders of traditional knowledge (TK).The first section of the chapter "Framing the Intellectual Property Needs and Expectations of Traditional Knowledge Holders " provides a basic and general introduction to
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  The debate on the international financial architecture: reforming the reformers

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2000

  This paper briefly surveys the progress made in various areas of reform of the international financial architecture since the outbreak of the East Asian crisis, and explains the principal technical and political obstacles encountered in carrying out fundamental changes capable of dealing with global and systemic instability.
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  Aid versus trade revisited

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2001

  Examines the (non) equivalence between aid flows and trade preferences as alternative forms of donor assistance in the presence of learning-by-doing externalities in recipient country export production.
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  Adjustment and poverty in Mexican agriculture: how farmers' wealth affects supply response

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  By and large, it appears that the goals of agricultural reform are being met in Mexico.
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  Nontariff barriers Africa faces : what did the Uruguay Round accomplish, and what remains to be done?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  African countries should generally benefit from the Uruguay Round liberalization of non tariff barriers, although some countries may suffer losses. The main danger could be failure to undertake the domestic reforms needed to take advantage of the more competitive trade environment.Perhaps the major accomplishment of the Uruguay Round is agreements reached on non tariff barriers (NTBs).
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  Structure and conduct of major agricultural input and output markets and response to reforms by rural households in Madagascar

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 1998

  Interim reports on adjustment in the input trading sector; price behavior in local markets; and adjustment farm households have been published and are available online.

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