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Trade and the environment
World Trade Organization, 1999Argues that international economic integration and growth reinforce the need for sound environmental policies at the national and international level. International cooperation is particularly important in addressing transboundary and global environmental challenges beyond the control of any individual nation.Questions include: Is economic integration a threat to the environment?DocumentTree Trade: Liberalization of International Commerce in Forest Products: Risks and Opportunities
World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 1999Analyzes the risks and opportunities associated with proposed liberalization of international commerce in forest products, focusing in the negotiations at the WTO Seattle conference.Notes that unless countries that export forest products improve forest protection policies, laws, and practices, further trade liberalization poses a significant threat to efforts to conserve and sustainably manageDocumentMeasuring governance, corruption, and state capture: how firms and bureaucrats shape the business environment in transition economies
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000Corruption thrives where states are too weak to control their own bureaucrats, to protect property and contract rights, and to provide the institutions that underpin an effective rule of law.DocumentFinal analytic framework for assessing the environmental effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement
NAFTA Commission for Environmental Cooperation, 1999This framework is a tool that puts forward hypotheses suggesting relationships between trade and the environment and, in the specific context of NAFTA, provides a methodology for analysis and suggests variables for empirical study, in order to confirm or refute existing hypotheses or generate new ones.DocumentAgricultural trade and rural development in the Middle East and North Africa: recent developments and prospects
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997More robust, dynamic growth could significantly boost sustainable economic growth and rural development in countries in the Middle East and North Africa with a comparative advantage in agriculture. But high levels of protection in many of those countries contribute to overvalued exchange rates and a significant bias against agriculture.DocumentEthical trade and export horticulture in sub-Saharan Africa: The development of tools for ethical trading of horticultural exports by resource poor groups
Ethical Trade and Natural Resources Programme, NRI, 1998Short report covering: the role of export horticulture in sub-Saharan Africa and its variable impact on the resource-poor; moves towards ethical trade in export horticulture, focusing on limitations of current approaches; a research agenda for developing appropriate criteria for ethical trade in horticultural products [author]DocumentInternational trade law and climate
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., 2001This paper argues that climate change policies are mostly compatible with international trade law and that ratifying the Kyoto Protocol will close existing gaps or uncertainties for the benefit of participating Parties.DocumentGeneral equilibrium modelling of trade and the environment / John Beghin ...[et al.]
OECD Development Centre, 1996The environmental impacts of economic activity have become an increasingly urgent concern in both OECD Member countries, as well as in non-Member countries. Research in this area is still in its infancy, and the data required to buttress analytical studies is still sparse.DocumentAnalysis of policy reforms and structural adjustment programs in Malawi with emphasis on agriculture and trade
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996This study’s emphasis on agriculture’s elevated role in Malawi’s medium-term adjustment strategy and its articulation of the sector’s key role as the engine of growth and employment aptly makes an important point. Dr.DocumentTrade Liberalisation: What 's at Stake ?
OECD Development Centre, 1992Trade barriers seriously distort patterns of international trade, allocation of resources, and economic growth. The total economic costs of the barriers are estimated to exceed $475 billion per annum. Partial reform, such as envisaged in the Uruguay Round, would yield benefits of $195 billion per annum, of which over $90 billion would accrue to developing and formerly centrally planned countries.Pages
