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  Incorporating gender considerations for the designation of special products in WTO agriculture negotiations

  International Gender and Trade Network, 2005

  This paper puts forward some reflections and recommendations in regard to the current situation of women in agriculture and the need to integrate gender-sensitive trade policies in negotiating processes in order to ease negative impacts of trade liberalisation, particularly for small farmers and rural poor, women being a significant percentage within those groups.In particular, the paper focuse
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  Special and differential treatment in the WTO agricultural negotiations

  Trinity College, Dublin, 2005

  This paper examines the case for special and differential (S&D) treatment for developing countries within the WTO Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) and the particular instruments or exemptions which such a treatment should contain.It highlights that experience to date with the implementation of the AoA has revealed a number of major shortcomings:the huge imbalance in the amount of trade-di
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  Antidumping measures: prospects for developing countries

  Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil, 2004

  The 1994 General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs incorporated an Antidumping Agreement aimed at addressing concerns about the US’s use of antidumping measures during the 1980s.This article evaluates the seven years of the Antidumping Agreement and presents the main proposals for changes.
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  Coping with trade reforms: implications of the WTO industrial tariff negotiations for developing countries

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2005

  This report examines the impact of trade liberalisation in industrial products as envisaged under the current WTO talks on developing countries. The study demonstrates that WTO proposals on industrial goods liberalisation could lead to a substantial gains for developing countries, particularly regarding exports.
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  WTO agreement on agriculture: a decade of dumping

  Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 2005

  This paper documents the widespread dumping of agricultural products by global agribusiness companies based in the United States and European Union. It provides an extensive appendix with data and calculations from 1990 to 2003 for five commodities grown in the U.S. and sold on the world market: wheat, corn (maize), soybean (soya), rice and cotton.An examination of U.S.
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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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  Moving people to deliver services: how can the WTO help?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2004

  The paper explores how the agenda of developing countries and of multinational corporations concerning the GATS negotiations on the ‘temporary presence of natural persons’ (mode 4) converge and how this coincidence of interest could be harnessed to deliver greater openness at least for skilled service providers.
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  The free trade agreement between Australia and the United States

  British Medical Journal, 2004

  This article, published in the British Medical Journal, examines the recently signed bilateral trade agreement between Australia and the United States (US) and explores the implications of the agreement for drug regulation, subsidy and supply.
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  Implementation of the WTO General Council Decision on Paragraph 6 of the DOHA Declaration on the Trips Agreement and Public Health

  World Health Organization, 2004

  This report from the World Health Organization (WHO) explains the compulsory licensing system through which developing countries can acquire cheap generic medicines to protect public health without breaking international trade laws.This system was established by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2003, in compliance with the 2001 Doha Declaration on the TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intell
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  The WTO in 2003: structural shifts, state-of-play and prospects for the Doha Round

  Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, 2003

  Much has changed in the transition from the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The WTO goes deeper and wider than its predecessor the GATT, and the Doha Round of negotiations proposes to enter territories such as investment, competition and environment-related policies.

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