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    Trade policy and poverty in Peru. How do free trade agreements (FTA) impact rural poverty?

    Comercio y Pobreza en Latinoamérica, 2008
    The link between trade liberalisation and economic growth does not appear to be conclusive. For some authors, liberalisation favours economic growth, while others indicate that it is an export-led strategy, rather than the elimination of trade barriers for imports, that promotes economic growth.The key messages in this report are as follows:
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    New dimensions of adjustment to globalization

    LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, 2008
    This paper provides new evidence on the link between globalisation and firm dynamics, focusing on the case of Estonia. Using firm-level data for the years 1997-2005, it analyses the impact of international competition on firm dynamics, considering both firm closedown and product switching.
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    Adjusting to bilateral trade liberalisation under an EPA: evidence for Mauritius

    Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2008
    This paper analyses the impact an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union would have on Mauritius. It finds that:
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    Colombia’s horrific labor abuses are among a long list of reasons to oppose the Colombia FTA

    Public Citizen, 2008
    In 2008, Colombia remains the most dangerous country in the world in which to be a trade unionist. The government has not been a neutral or benevolent actor in Colombia’s human rights nightmare.
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    Agricultural trade: planting the seeds of regional liberalization in Asia

    United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2007
    This publication brings together papers prepared for the “Regional Agricultural Trade Liberalization” project, which was implemented by the Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT) researchers between May 2005 and December 2006.
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    Economic reforms, foreign direct investment and its economic effects in India

    Kiel Institute of World Economics/Institut für Weltwirtschaft, 2006
    Post-reform India has witnessed a boom in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The composition and type of FDI have changed considerably with the service sector accounting for the largest increase. While FDI in India continues to be local-market seeking in the first place, its world-market orientation has clearly increased in the aftermath of economic reforms.
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    The macroeconomic, industrial and distributional effects of removing tariffs in Bangladesh

    Centre of Policy Studies and the IMPACT Project, 2008
    This paper examines the economic effects of removing tariff in Bangladesh, using a computable general equilibrium (GCE) modelling approach.
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    Trade adjustment and human capital investments: evidence from Indian tariff reform

    International Monetary Fund, 2008
    This paper addresses the question about the influence of trade policy on schooling and child labor decisions in low income countries in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. In the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline in child labour.
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    Trade policies and export growth – employment and poverty impact in Tanzania

    Orebro University, 2008
    This paper is a 2-part document which examines the interplay between trade and exchange rate. It also looks at the impacts of trade reforms such as trade policies on employment and poverty in Tanzania.
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    EU FTA Manual

    ActionAid International, 2008
    To guide negotiators from developing countries in free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations with the European Union (EU), this manual provides an overview on the EU's overall strategic aims such as:

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