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  Looming crisis: the threat of industrial trade liberalisation negotiations at the WTO on India's textile and leather industries

  ActionAid International, 2005

  This briefing paper argues that these WTO negotiations on non-agricultural market access (NAMA) could threaten the jobs of thousands of workers in infant industries and traditional sectors of employment in developing countries, wiping out livelihoods for many poor and vulnerable communities.With a particular focus on India the brief finds that:while trade liberalisation policies in Indi
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  Trade liberalization and poverty in Nigeria: lessons from the past

  Global Development Network, 2005

  With increasing evidence showing that openness is beneficial to growth, Nigeria, along with other Less Developed Countries, is being encouraged to reduce tariffs in an attempt to be more open. Presently the Nigerian government is making efforts to fully participate in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) trade liberalisation scheme (TLS).
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  Down the plughole: why bringing water into WTO services negotiations would unleash a development disaster

  ActionAid International, 2005

  Poor countries are under intense pressure in the World Trade Organization's GATS negotiations to open their service markets and "progressively liberalise" key sectors – such as water delivery – to foreign corporations.
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  Reality check: the distributional impact of privatization in developing countries

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2005

  This report looks at the privatisation of state-owned enterprises as a market reform. The volume brings together a comprehensive set of country studies on the effects of privatisation on people.
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  Trade and development: a selective review

  Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2005

  This paper discusses the arguments around the linkages between trade and growth. Despite a large amount of recent studies, there is still no agreement amongst economists about the relationship between the two. Most research indicates that trade stimulates income and growth, although some of this literature is controversial and many studies are criticised for weaknesses in methodology.
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  Environmental health and international trade: linkages and methodologies

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005

  This paper fleshes out the various linkages that exist between trade policy and environmental health. It is an analysis of the potential impact pathways by which trade policy might affect environmental health, based on a review of the literature and on the authors’ knowledge of trade-environment and assessment issues.
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  Agricultural liberalization in multilateral and regional trade negotiations

  Institute for the Integration for Latin America and the Carribean, 2005

  For most Western Hemispheric (WH) countries, agriculture is a sensitive sector, absorbing a considerable portion of the economically active population and representing a high percentage of GDP and exports. Thus, agriculture is a strategic issue for all Latin American countries for both regional and multilateral trade negotiations.
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  A stitch in time: helping vulnerable countries meet the challenges of apparel quota elimination

  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2005

  Following the elimination of export quotas textiles and apparel industries and the anticipated rise of other larger industrialised developing countries like China at the expense of smaller, less industrialised developing countries, the paper explores policy responses that could mitigate the negative effect of the quota elimination on less industrialised developing countries.The paper points out
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  Promoting fair globalization in textiles and clothing in a post-MFA environment

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  In January 2005 the Multifibre Arrangement, which had placed quotas on textile exports for all countries, was finally phased out completely. It is understood that there will be winners from this situation. Countries such as China and India, for example, with well-developed capacity in production and large, relatively cheap labour forces, have been restricted by the quota system.
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  The impact of the second-hand clothing trade on developing countries

  Oxfam, 2005

  This report examines the evidence of the impact of trade in second hand clothing (SHC) on developing country producers and consumers. Supporters of the SHC industry point out that the trade creates emaployment in the receiving country (i.e. transport, cleaning, etc.) and also provides low cost clothing for people living in poverty.

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