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Trade, foreign firms, and economic policy in Indonesian and Thai manufacturing
East-West Center, 2005This paper examines the rapid growth and changing composition of manufactured exports in Indonesia and Thailand, and documents the importance of contributions of foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) to export growth in the machinery industries.DocumentTNCs and the removal of textiles and clothing quotas
United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2005This study explores the development implications of the phasing out of the quotas on textiles that were previously fixed by the expired Multi Fibre Arrangement. It focuses on the implications for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in and exports from developing countries. It argues that the role of foreign-owned production in the textiles and clothing value chain merits attention.DocumentTrade policy, income risk and welfare
National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2005This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and assesses the corresponding welfare effects. Based on data on Mexican workers it estimates individual income risk in various manufacturing sectors.DocumentGlobalisation’s bystanders: does trade liberalisation hurt countries that do not participate?
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005This paper examines the effects of trade liberalisation on countries that do not participate in the global liberalisation efforts.DocumentThe effect of China and India's growth and trade liberalisation on poverty in Africa
Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005Despite the fact that trade between China, India (Asian Drivers) and Africa has grown significantly since 1990, it is only recently that attention has been paid to their impact on the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa.DocumentDumping on the poor: the Common Agricultural Policy, the WTO and International Development
Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2005This paper critiques the EU's Common Agricultural Policy as a mechanism that promotes over-production and dumping of cheap goods that undercut local markets in developing countries. At the same time tariffs and other obstacles prevent agricultural producers in these countries from accessing the European markets for their own goods.DocumentSoutheast Asia Human Development Report 2005
Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2004This report links the concepts of human development, regional economic integration and regional cooperation. It argues that the high level of disparity among countries within South East Asia can be attributed to variations in human resource development and differences in the quality of governance.DocumentBound and tied: the developmental impacts of industrial trade liberalisation negotiations at the World Trade Organisation
ActionAid International, 2005This report explores global trade negotiations in the Doha Round, in particular current negotiations on non-agricultural market access (NAMA). It t argues that it is the short term commercial interests of Northern based industrial exporters, and not development, that are guiding rich countries in the NAMA negotiations.DocumentTrade justice or free trade?
The Globalization Institute, 2005This document criticises the Trade Justice Movement on the grounds that its definition of trade justice is invalid.Document2005 and sustainable development: why the UK government is part of the problem
War on Want, 2005This brief argues that despite positioning itself as the champion of Africa and the environment, the UK government remains one of the chief obstacles in the fight against international poverty and environmental degradation.The issues highlighted in the brief include:the UK has pushed forward an offensive” agenda - which aims to open up developing country markets to EU exports in the indPages