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    IPRs, biotechnology and food security

    Gapresearch.org, IDS, 2002
    This paper examines the development and enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPRs) at the international and national level and the impacts of IPRs on biotechnology, agricultural practices and food security concerns in the context of globalisation.
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    Trade and poverty: background briefing

    Department for International Development, UK, 2002
    The reduction in barriers to international trade can increase and create incomes for the poor and provide more resources to fight poverty.This paper:describes the impact of liberalisation on household and individual income levels identifies three channels through which trade reform affects poverty, that is prices, enterprise and government revenueanalyses how policy-making decis
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    The great EU sugar scam: how Europe's sugar regime is devastating livelihoods in the developing world

    Oxfam, 2002
    Under the common agricultural policy (CAP), the EU has emerged as the world's largest exporter of white sugar. Subsidies and tariffs generate vast profits for big sugar processors and large farmers whilst vast surpluses are dumped on world markets.This briefing paper highlights that the EU's sugar regime is in opposition to the theory of comparative advantage.
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    Reforming global trade in agriculture: a developing-country perspective

    Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2002
    This paper recommends changes to the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture (AOA).
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    Unequal harvest: farmers' voices on international trade and the right to food

    Rights and Democracy, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, 2001
    This paper illustrates a sample of the day-to-day food-security challenges for agricultural workers in the face of liberalised trade policies.
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    Is globalisation good for Africa?

    School of Economics and Commercial Law, Göteborg University, Sweden, 2002
    Globalisation or market integration in Sub-Saharan Africa is closely linked to the structural adjustment programmes.
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    Does globalization help the poor?

    Alternet, 2002
    This article criticises the negative impact of the advocates of of economic globalization (World Bank; IMF; WTO) on the world's poor.The article finds that:the advocates of globalisation stress that those that oppose globalisation are hurting the poor by arresting the development of free trade and liberalisationeconomic globalisation is causing an acceleration in poverty and inequal
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    African agriculture in the WTO framework

    African Economic Research Consortium, 1999
    This paper attempts to analyse what impact the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (URAA) will have on African agriculture within the new WTO framework.The paper begins with a broad analysis of the structure and growth of African agriculture and identifies key internal and external factors that seem to explain the structure and performance of Africa’s agricultural production and trade.
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    Agricultural and rural development policy in Latin America: new directions and new challenges (de Janvry / Sadoulet / Key)

    Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Berkeley, 1999
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    Modelling the Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Women, at Work and at Home: IDS research proposal

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998
    Researching the uneven impact of globalisation (mainly trade) on women and men in developing countries. It aims to construct and apply models to analyse the effects of trade liberalisation on the monetary economy, the household economy and the interactions between them.

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