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Developing country coordination in international intellectual property standard-setting
South Centre, 2005This paper focuses on developing country co-ordination in international intellectual property (IP) standard-setting. While international rule-making on IP is becoming more complex and diversified, developing countries, with their limited resources and expertise in the field of IP, are not well prepared to face the challenges and suffer from a lack of coordination amongst each other.DocumentWorld Trade Report 2005
World Trade Organization, 2005The World Trade Report (WTR) takes up a number of key trade policy issues facing the international trading system for analysis and discussion. It seeks to deepen public understanding of current trade policy issues and to contribute to more informed consideration of the options facing governments.DocumentA little blue lie: harmful subsidies need to be reduced, not redefined
Oxfam, 2005This brief examines the impact of new criteria for Blue Box agricultural subsidies which are under consideration by trade negotiators at the World Trade Organisation.DocumentDumping on the poor: the Common Agricultural Policy, the WTO and International Development
Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2005This paper critiques the EU's Common Agricultural Policy as a mechanism that promotes over-production and dumping of cheap goods that undercut local markets in developing countries. At the same time tariffs and other obstacles prevent agricultural producers in these countries from accessing the European markets for their own goods.DocumentThe antidumping negotiations: proposals, positions and antidumping profiles
Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy, 2005This paper examines the positions taken by major actors in the negotiations over the rules governing the use of antidumping (AD) duties that are occurring in both the World Trade Organization and the Free Trade Area of the Americas.DocumentSpecial and differential treatment: a mechanism to promote development?
Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy, 2005This paper argues that Special and Differential Treatment (SDT) that was emphasised in the Doha round of WTO negotiations does not necessarily promote development.DocumentThe impact of trade liberalization on agricultural biological diversity: domestic support measures and their effects on agricultural biological diversity
Convention on Biological Diversity, 2005This study provides an in-depth analysis of the potential implications for biodiversity of a reduction in and reform of agricultural support activities.DocumentBound and tied: the developmental impacts of industrial trade liberalisation negotiations at the World Trade Organisation
ActionAid International, 2005This report explores global trade negotiations in the Doha Round, in particular current negotiations on non-agricultural market access (NAMA). It t argues that it is the short term commercial interests of Northern based industrial exporters, and not development, that are guiding rich countries in the NAMA negotiations.DocumentAnnual Report 2005
World Trade Organization, 2005The annual report (2005) of the World Trade Organisation provides an overview of developments regarding institutional matters, including descriptions of its main activities and information on its budget and staff.Highlights identified by the Report 2005 include:2004 the world economy recorded its strongest growth in a decade: world GDP grew by 4 %, and the gap between fastest and sloweDocumentImpact of joining the WTO on Ukrainian ferrous metallurgy: subsidies vs. antidumping, is there really a trade-off?
Economic Education and Research Consortium,, Russian Federation, 2005Metallurgy is a key sector of the Ukrainian economy. According to the authors its most remarkable features are on the one hand, subsidising steel producers; and on the other, permanent antidumping investigations of Ukrainian metallurgical exports.Pages