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  Trade and the environment

  World Trade Organization, 1999

  Argues 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?
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  Tree Trade: Liberalization of International Commerce in Forest Products: Risks and Opportunities

  World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 1999

  Analyzes 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 manage
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  Measuring governance, corruption, and state capture: how firms and bureaucrats shape the business environment in transition economies

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  Corruption 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.
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  Final analytic framework for assessing the environmental effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement

  NAFTA Commission for Environmental Cooperation, 1999

  This 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.
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  Agricultural trade and rural development in the Middle East and North Africa: recent developments and prospects

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997

  More 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.
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  Ethical 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, 1998

  Short 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]
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  International trade law and climate

  Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., 2001

  This 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.
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  General equilibrium modelling of trade and the environment / John Beghin ...[et al.]

  OECD Development Centre, 1996

  The 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.
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  Analysis of policy reforms and structural adjustment programs in Malawi with emphasis on agriculture and trade

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996

  This 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.
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  Trade Liberalisation: What 's at Stake ?

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  Trade 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.

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