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    Dirty exports and environmental regulation: do standards matter to trade?

    World Bank, 2002
    This paper addresses part of the background context to the Doha discussions on deciding whether or how to link trade agreements to the environment.
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    TRIPS and public health: the next battle

    Oxfam, 2002
    This Oxfam policy paper looks at how the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement may prevent many developing countries from finding affordable sources of vital new medicines.
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    The multilateral trading system: a development perspective

    United Nations Development Programme, 2001
    This paper analyses the global governance of trade from a development and developing country perspective with a particular emphasis on its institutional framework. The paper begins by looking at the role of trade and the world trading system in the context of development. It provides an analysis of the historical evolution of the world trading system in the post World War II period.
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    The "state of the debate" on traditional knowledge

    United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2002
    This document summarizes the current "state of the debate" in major intergovernmental forums dealing with traditional knowledge (TK) and access to genetic resources and benefit sharing.
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    From Uruguay to Doha: agricultural trade negotiations at the World Trade Organization

    WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2002
    This discussion paper examines current agricultural trade negotiations at the World Trade Organization, with particular attention to the relationship between liberalization and developing countries’ economic growth and food security.Agriculture remains one of the most highly protected arenas of international trade and that the cost of such protection falls particularly hard on developing countr
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    The impact on Uganda of agricultural trade liberalisation

    Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2002
    This paper evaluates the impact on Uganda of the liberalisation of world trade, especially in agricultural commodities, as proposed in the Uruguay Round.It draws three broad conclusions.
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    2002 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers

    United States Trade Representative, 2002
    This USTR report provides an inventory of the most important foreign barriers affecting U.S. exports of goods and services, foreign direct investment by U.S. persons, and protection of intellectual property rights. Its purpose is to guide US policy in reducing or eliminating these barriers and to act as a tool in enforcing U.S. trade laws.
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    Extending special and differential treatment (SDT) in agriculture for developing countries

    WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2002
    The argument put forward in this paper is that the instruments to give effect to special and differential treatment (SDT) are in a state of flux (because of changes in national and multilateral trade policy), but that the principles remain valid and justify the creation of new instruments.One prime candidate for new SDT, the paper argues, is the area of food security and with this in mind it e
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    Bold development box proposals meet with stiff resistance (WTO Agreement on Agriculture)

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2002
    Since the Seattle Ministerial developing countries have sought to introduce a ‘development box’ that would allow them more flexibility in implementing the Agreement on Agriculture.This article outlines the various proposals and responses and charts the progress of negotiations.Among proposals were provisions that:developing countries should be able to exempt staple crops important t
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    Agriculture in Developing Countries and the WTO

    Solagral, 2002
    A collection of 11 papers from Solagral covering a range of issues relating to WTO and bilateral agreements on trade of agricultural products between developed and developing countries up to, but not including, the Doha Ministerial.

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