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  The economics of failure: the real cost of ‘free’ trade for poor countries

  Christian Aid, 2005

  This briefing paper argues that in real terms, the aid received by Africa has simply offset the loses sustained as a result of the trade conditions attached to aid packages. It argues that these losses dwarf the US$40 billion worth of debt relief agreed at the recent meeting of G7 finance ministers.
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  The perversity of preferences: GSP and developing country trade policies, 1976-2000

  World Bank, 2005

  The aim of this paper is to contribute to the ongoing debate on ways to integrate the developing countries into the world trading system and to lower their trade barriers.
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  Ten Years of the WTO: subordinating development to free trade

  Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., 2005

  This paper critically looks back at 10 years of the World Trade Organisation. It argues that the WTO’s impact on the world’s poor has been overwhelmingly negative.
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  Forthcoming changes in the EU banana and sugar markets: a menu ofoptions for an effective EU transitional package

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  Preferential access under the EU’s Sugar and Banana Protocols has supported large income transfers to a number of ACP countries. These transfers will be reduced under proposed reforms to the EU’s sugar and banana markets which are due to take place at the end of 2005.
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  EU sugar reform; the implications for the development of LDCs

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This study argues that the granting of unlimited duty-free access under the EBA (Everything But Arms) Agreement will coincide with reform of the EU sugar regime, which is expected to lead to significant price reductions in the EU market.
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  Agricultural trade reform and the Doha development agenda

  World Bank, 2005

  This working paper examines the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral trade reform over the next decade.
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  Report on the evaluation of the IMF's approach to capital account liberalisation

  Independent Evaluation Office of the IMF, 2005

  This report evaluates the IMF’s approach to capital account liberalisation and other related capital account issues.
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  Reform of the sugar regime in the European Union

  International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity, 2005

  This paper proposes a pro-development reform of the EU sugar market order.
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  People’s guide to the Pacific’s Economic Partnership Agreement: Negotiations between the Pacific Islands and the European Union pursuant to the Cotonou Agreement 2000

  EpaWatch, 2005

  This report examines the negotiations between the European Union and the Pacific ACP states for a Pacific regional Economic Partnership Agreement.
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  The Doha deindustrialisation agenda: non-agricultural market access negotiations at the WTO

  War on Want, 2005

  This brief critically assessed the non-agricultural market access (NAMA) negotiations currently conducted at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).The brief finds that:NAMA negotiations are being rushed forward in order to achieve an ambitious level of trade liberalisation for the benefit of the world’s richest countriesthey are also designed to achieve the opening of industrial and ma

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