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  Trade liberalisation, export orientation and employment in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico

  International Institute for Labour Studies, ILO, 2005

  This study describes the trade liberalisation process as well as the general patterns of trade and export performance of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico and attempts to assess sectoral labour market impacts.
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  Cost and productivity in Indian textiles: post MFA implications

  Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2004

  With the Multi Fibre Agreement (MFA) expiring on 1st of January 2005, competition in the textile and clothing industry is likely to increase.
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  Trade and structural adjustment

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2005

  This identifies both for developed and developing countries, the requirements for successful trade-related structural adjustment via the reallocation of labour and capital to more efficient uses, while limiting adjustment costs for individuals, communities and society as a whole.
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  Integrated assessment of the impact of trade liberalization on the rice sector

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2005

  This document provides a synthesis of the integrated assessment studies conducted in the third, most recent, round of country projects commissioned by UNEP, which focused on the rice sector. It provides a detailed analysis of the environmental, social and economic implications of trade liberalisation in the rice sector in China, Colombia, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Senegal and Viet Nam.
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  Trade preferences to small developing countries and the welfare costs of lost multilateral liberalization

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper starts from the premise that preferential trade agreements slow down multilateral trade liberalisation. To avoid this stumbling block effect the authors suggest replacing unilateral preferences by a fixed import subsidy. They argue that this scheme would reduce the drag of preferences on multilateral liberalisation.
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  Human security, corporate accountability and the regulation of trade and investment

  Canadian Consortium on Human Security, 2004

  This paper explores the current disconnection between trade and investment, on the one hand, and human rights on the other, both at the international and domestic level.
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  The trade escape: WTO rules and alternatives to free trade Economic Partnership Agreements

  ActionAid International, 2005

  Pointing to the likely devastating effects of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) proposed by the EU on African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, this report argues that if the EPAs go ahead as planned jobs would be lost and livelihoods would be wrecked. It also argues that European corporations would be empowered while ACP governments impeded.
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  Making agricultural trade reform work for the poor

  International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council, USA, 2005

  This 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.
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  The gender pay gap and trade liberalisation: evidence for India

  University of Sussex, UK, 2005

  This paper investigates the extent to which economic reforms in India have affected the relative wage position of women.
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  The WTO negotiations on non-agricultural market access: gender and the removal of industrial tariffs

  International Gender and Trade Network, 2005

  This paper assesses the implications of the current non-agricultural market access (NAMA) negotiations for developing countries with a particular focus on the impact on women.

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