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Making agricultural trade reform work for the poor
International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council, USA, 2005This paper brings together what is known about the link between agricultural trade reform and poverty alleviation, and examines how developing countries can successfully manage to open their economies while reducing poverty. It highlights the channels that link agricultural growth, rural development and poverty alleviation with trade.DocumentForthcoming changes in the EU banana and sugar markets: a menu ofoptions for an effective EU transitional package
Overseas Development Institute, 2005Preferential access under the EU’s Sugar and Banana Protocols has supported large income transfers to a number of ACP countries. These transfers will be reduced under proposed reforms to the EU’s sugar and banana markets which are due to take place at the end of 2005.DocumentEU sugar reform; the implications for the development of LDCs
Department for International Development, UK, 2005This study argues that the granting of unlimited duty-free access under the EBA (Everything But Arms) Agreement will coincide with reform of the EU sugar regime, which is expected to lead to significant price reductions in the EU market.DocumentAgricultural trade reform and the Doha development agenda
World Bank, 2005This working paper examines the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral trade reform over the next decade.DocumentNAFTA's promise and reality: lessons from Mexico for the Hemisphere
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003The report has two objectives: to determine how quality of life in Mexico has been affected by trade liberalisation in North America. It focuses on the microlevel of people and their communities, on changes in household income, paychecks, rural employment and agricultural production.DocumentUnderstanding the issues: what's the matter with trade?
Norwegian Church Aid, 2005This is a set of papers that address the questions: do equal rules really allow poor producers to receive a fair share of the trade wealth and does the current free trade system represent equal rules at all?DocumentAddressing the impact of preference erosion in bananas on Caribbean countries
Department for International Development, UK, 2004This report sets out to assess the impact on the Caribbean of the reform – or tariffication - of the EU Common Organisation of the Market in Bananas (COMB), moving EU preference from a tariff/quota to a tariff only regime.A survey of earlier erosions in trade preferences demonstrates:the progressive erosion in trade preferences has already had a significant impact on Caribbean banana prDocumentPolicy coherence for development: issues in agriculture
Trinity College, Dublin, 2005This paper surveys a range of issues that arise with respect to the coherence of OECD agricultural policies with the Millennium Development Goals’ objectives of reducing poverty and overcoming hunger in developing countries.Its findings include:the more comprehensive and deeper the liberalisation, the more likely that all countries can gainit makes sense, therefore, to include agricDocumentSix fallacies associated with agricultural liberalisation debunked
Columbia University Library, 2004This paper aims to identify and subsequently debunk what it considers to be fundamental fallacies in the discourse on agricultural liberalisation.The myths identified by the paper are, as it is argued, held by a wide variety of actors, including the World Bank but also development NGOs such as Oxfam.