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    EU trade policy and conflict

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005
    The paper investigates the impacts of EU trade policy on violent conflict in the developing world., the leverage the EU can exert through its trade policy to promote peace in countries at risk of conflict and the ‘export’ of the EU model through Regional Trade Agreements and the European Neighbourhood Policy.It highlights that:the EU has made progress in undermining the shadow economies
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    Corporate governance and secondary privatization in transition

    Regional Think Tanks Partnership Program, Russian Federation, 2004
    The authors examine trends in post-privatisation changes in the ownership structures of privatised enterprises (so called secondary privatisation) and their relationship to the quality of corporate governance in transition countries, with particular attention to Poland and Russia.The study focuses on the mutual effects of ownership consolidation processes and the evolution of corporate governan
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    Regional cooperation in the Balkans as an essential step towards EU membership. Lessons of Visegrad

    Institute for World Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary, 2004
    Integration of the Western Balkans is one of the recent priority issues on the European Union (EU) agenda. On the other hand, the strengthening of cross- border relations is a key priority for Romania and Bulgaria as countries negotiating EU membership in 2007.In the paper, an analysis is made of cross-border cooperation in South-Eastern Europe (SEE) and Bulgaria’s role in it.
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    Planting the rights seed: a human rights perspective on agriculture trade and the WTO

    Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 2005
    The report critically examines the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Agriculture (AoA).
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    Mapping trade policy: understanding the challenges of civil society participation

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004
    This paper examines the way that a range of development actors view and engage with the arena of trade policy, focusing in particular on the challenges encountered by civil society actors participating in that arena.
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    Our common interest: report of the Commission for Africa

    Commission for Africa, 2005
    The Report presents a number recommendations as an agenda for progress concerning debt, aid, trade and HIV and Aids in Africa. The actions proposed by the Commission constitute a coherent package for Africa. The problems they address are interlocking.
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    The future of the WTO: addressing institutional challenges in the new millennium

    World Trade Organization, 2004
    In the light of recent setbacks of the WTO, particularly in Seattle and Cancun, this report looks at the state of the organisation in order to study and clarify institutional challenges and to consider how the organisation can be reinforced to meet these challenges in the future.
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    Gender and labour market liberalisation in Africa

    African Labour Research Network, 2004
    This report examines the liberalisation of the labour market in Africa from a gender perspective. It analyses current economic and labour policies of seven African countries to see their impact on the labour force and the organised labour movement in general, and women in particular.
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    Globalising women's rights: confronting unequal development between the UN rights framework and the WTO trade agreements

    Women in Development Europe, 2004
    This paper is a report of WIDE’s annual conference from 2004, held at the Gustav-Stresemann-Institute, in Bonn from 21-22 May. The report includes summaries of the main seminars held.
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    India: An integral part of new Asia

    Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, University of Singapore, 2004
    As East Asian economies emerge from the shadow of the 1997 crisis, there appears to be an increasing recognition that greater economic coordination and cooperation among major Asian countries is essential to manage globalisation challenges, and to enhance Asia’s role in the world affairs.

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