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    Russian WTO accession: what has been accomplished, what can be expected

    World Bank Research, 2007
    Arguing that there is no evidence of excessive demands on Russia due to political considerations, this paper summarises Russia's principal reform commitments undertaken as part of its World Trade Organization (WTO) accession negotiations. Russia:
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    Tropical and diversification products: strategic options for developing countries

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2008
    This paper aims to provide strategic options for developing countries regarding the liberalisation of tropical products.
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    Trade-induced changes in economic inequality: assessment issues and policy implications for developing countries

    Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme, 2008
    The starting point of this paper is given by country situations where trade liberalisation is expected to be poverty and inequality alleviating in the long run while inducing a short run increase in poverty or in inequality.
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    Maritime transport and related logistics services in Egypt

    Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES), Egypt, 2007
    Maritime and related logistical services play an important role in the Egyptian economy as ports handle around 65 percent of Egyptian exports. Also, maritime logistics services are linked to a large number of other sectors.
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    Agricultural liberalization in preferential trading agreements: the case of the ASEAN FTA

    United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2006
    The slow pace of multilateral trade negotiations has led to a spread of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) at bilateral and regional levels. This paper explores the capacity of PTAs to deliver trade liberalisation notably with regard to agriculture. Agricultural liberalisation is a sensitive topic for a number of reasons:
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    Special and differential treatment for small and vulnerable countries based on the situational approach

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2007
    Small countries usually depend more on international trade than other countries and are more exposed to trade-related risks. This paper addresses the issues of special and differential treatment (S&DT) for small and vulnerable economies (SVEs) from the perspective of a Situational Approach. It is structured as follows: 
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    Trade liberalisation and intra-household poverty in Vietnam: a Q2 social impact analysis

    Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis, 2007
    This paper examines the impact of trade liberalisation and WTO accession on child poverty in Vietnam. Trade increases wealth, but has varying impact on different members of a household. It affects child well-being and thus human capital formation and future development. The authors identify pathways through which trade liberalisation is linked to child well-being:
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    Trade justice: turning words into action

    Christian Aid, 2007
    This advocacy guide examines what is meant by trade justice, what needs to change, and how the campaign will help make poverty history. It argues that forcing liberalisation on poor countries will not help them out of poverty.
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    Basic concepts and proposals on the use of policy spaces in trade-supported strategies for sustainable development

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2007
    Trade-supported Strategies for Sustainable Development (TSDS) aim at putting trade liberalisation and other strategies to work in favour of sustainable development in developing countries. This report presents the basic concepts and proposals of TSDS in four key sections:
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    Looking east: the EU's new FTA negotiations in Asia

    European centre for international political economy, 2007
    Due to the stalling of the WTO’s Doha round, the European Union pursues a new policy on free trade agreements (FTAs) centred on negotiations with three Asian partners. The author believes that this new policy is unlikely to deliver strong WTO-plus FTAs. He points out several flaws:

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