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  Impacts of trade liberalization under the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) of the World Trade Organization: a case study of rice

  Asia Pacific Research Network, 2002

  This paper asks whether or not Thailand is going to benefit from the multilateral trade mechanism according to the Agreement on Agriculture. More particularly, whether or not the small-scale farmers are going to benefit from the agreement.The paper demonstrates that, even as Thailand calls itself an ‘agricultural country’, agricultural products are valued only as commodities.
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  Can liberalisation boost farming in Southern Africa?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Have structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) reduced discrimination against agriculture in southern Africa? Does price liberalisation, by increasing production and employment really reduce poverty and the incentive to migrate to towns and cities? Or are deeper changes needed?
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  A development perspective on EU trade policies and their implications for Central and Eastern European countries

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2003

  This paper discusses the issue of adjustment in the EU and evaluates the EU track record in key industries of interest to developing countries. It also evaluates the EU commitment to environmentally sustainable policies and reviews the various EU technical regulations or social policies against the above two perspectives.
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  U.S. dumping on world agricultural markets: can trade rules help farmers?

  WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2003

  Dumping, the practice of selling products at prices far below their production costs, is a serious distortion for developing countries’ markets, because it threatens their food security, rural livelihood, poverty reduction and trade.This happens essentially for two reasons:imports of dumped products can drive developing country farmers out of their businessagricultural producers who
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  Environment benefits from removing trade restrictions and distortions: background for WTO negotiations

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  The interaction between environmental policies and trade policies emerged as an issue at the end of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in 1994.
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  Agriculture and Non-agricultural Liberalization in the Millennium Round

  Global Trade Analysis Project, 1999

  Reviews the experiences of developing countries with the changes to agricultural trade protection during the Uruguay Round process. Considers the effects of relying on bulk agricultural commodties exportTariff rates on industrial products have fallen framatically since 1947, but tarriffs on agricultural commodities have actually increased.
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  Analysis of policy reforms and structural adjustment programs in Malawi with emphasis on agriculture and trade

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996

  This study’s emphasis on agriculture’s elevated role in Malawi’s medium-term adjustment strategy and its articulation of the sector’s key role as the engine of growth and employment aptly makes an important point. Dr.
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  China's Unfinished Open-Economy Reforms: Liberalisation of Services

  OECD Development Centre, 1999

  During the 1990s, China has experienced a surge in imports of services, particularly those of communication, insurance and other business services, despite the fact that the authorities have maintained a plethora of restrictive measures limiting access to the service sector.

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