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  Trade and the environment

  World Trade Organization, 1999

  Argues that international economic integration and growth reinforce the need for sound environmental policies at the national and international level. International cooperation is particularly important in addressing transboundary and global environmental challenges beyond the control of any individual nation.Questions include: Is economic integration a threat to the environment?
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  World Trade Organization Ministerial Conferences

  World Trade Organization, 2003

  Lists documents relating to Legal texts of the WTO, including documents from the ministerial meetings in 1996 (Singapore), 1998 (Geneva), 1999 (Seattle) and 2001 (Qatar)
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  Trade and Development Report 1999

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 1999

  Focuses on: a detailed empirical analysis of the links between economic growth, external deficits and instability in developing countries over the past three decades an explanation of why trade rather than augmented private capital flows is the more secure basis for development in the South, and outlines a positive trade agenda for developing countries in the next round of trade negot
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  Aid for Trade Development: Lessons for Lomé V

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999

  Reviews some recent initiatives that aim to improve the performance of trade-related aid projects. It then looks at the European Commission’s (EC) experience, considering the results of evaluations and assessing the new directions that are being followed. The concluding section provides some recommendations.
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  Electronic Commerce: Issues for the South

  South Centre, 1999

  Addresses some of the core questions concerning eCommerce and place them in perspective for developing countries attempting to develop their strategies. Focuses on the WTO issues and possible negotiating positions.
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  Tree Trade: Liberalization of International Commerce in Forest Products: Risks and Opportunities

  World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 1999

  Analyzes the risks and opportunities associated with proposed liberalization of international commerce in forest products, focusing in the negotiations at the WTO Seattle conference.Notes that unless countries that export forest products improve forest protection policies, laws, and practices, further trade liberalization poses a significant threat to efforts to conserve and sustainably manage
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  Trade Liberalization in a Dynamic Setting: Implications of a New WTO Round

  Brookings Institution, 1999

  Explores the impacts of a new WTO Round of trade liberalization over the period from 2000 to 2010, using a model that allows for short run unemployment, adjustment costs in capital formation, international flows of financial assets and forward looking expectations of the announced policy changes.
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  Stop the Millennium Round [WTO negotiation] Campaign

  Friends of the Earth, 1999

  Campaign material focusing on the WTO trade negotiations, and especially on the Seattle Meeting in December 1999
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  Loaded against the poor: the World Trade Organisation

  Oxfam, 1999

  Oxfam position paper prepared for the WTO Seattle conference.Argues thatThe World Trade Organisation must agree to independent country-by-country studies to find out how its "free trade" rules have affected people’s lives, and use this research to plan fairer rules in the futureit should announce a "tariff bonfire", where rich countries dismantle the bewildering array of barriers th
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  Seattle Symposium on International Trade Issues in the First Decades of the Next Century, December 1999: reports on meeting

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 1999

  Coverage of the WTO meeting held in Seattle, 29 Nov-3 December 1999.

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