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EU–ACP Economic Partnership Agreements: the effects of reciprocity
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005This briefing discusses the potential implications of the EPAs, as reflected in recent research from the IDS.DocumentThe Doha development agenda: impacts on trade and poverty
Overseas Development Institute, 2004This series of briefing papers summarises of the principal issues of the WTO round, how the outcome might affect poverty, the progress of the negotiations, and the impact on four very different countries.Briefing papers are:“Trade liberalisation and poverty reduction” analyses potential Doha reforms and their poverty reduction effects“Principal issues in the Doha negotiations” presDocumentRace to the bottom: exploitation of workers in the global garment industry
Norwegian Church Aid, 2005This paper explores the race to the bottom in garment producing countries.DocumentNAFTA's promise and reality: lessons from Mexico for the Hemisphere
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003The report has two objectives: to determine how quality of life in Mexico has been affected by trade liberalisation in North America. It focuses on the microlevel of people and their communities, on changes in household income, paychecks, rural employment and agricultural production.DocumentUnderstanding the issues: what's the matter with trade?
Norwegian Church Aid, 2005This is a set of papers that address the questions: do equal rules really allow poor producers to receive a fair share of the trade wealth and does the current free trade system represent equal rules at all?DocumentWTO/GATS and economic development: key to "the new economy"
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2005This report outlines the programme on WTO/GATS and Economic Development which is part of a Strategic Institute Programme at CMI on Producer Services.The WTO/GATS programme covers three main issues:the adoption of information technology and its impact on supply chain managementthe impact of trade liberalisation (financial services, telecommunications and energy services in particularDocumentDoes tariff liberalisation increase wage inequality? some empirical evidence
National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2005The aim of this paper is to explores will happen to wage inequality, if tariff rates are reduced. The paper considers two types of wage inequality: between occupations, and between industries.DocumentThe United States-Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement falls short on workers' rights
Human Rights Watch, 2005This brief assesses the impact of the proposed United States-Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (D.R.-CAFTA) on workers’ human rights.Main findings of the report are:the D.R.-CAFTA fails to require compliance with even the most basic internationally recognised labour rights norms and specifically fails to protect women workers against discriminationthe labour riDocumentAddressing the impact of preference erosion in bananas on Caribbean countries
Department for International Development, UK, 2004This report sets out to assess the impact on the Caribbean of the reform – or tariffication - of the EU Common Organisation of the Market in Bananas (COMB), moving EU preference from a tariff/quota to a tariff only regime.A survey of earlier erosions in trade preferences demonstrates:the progressive erosion in trade preferences has already had a significant impact on Caribbean banana prDocumentPolicy coherence for development: issues in agriculture
Trinity College, Dublin, 2005This paper surveys a range of issues that arise with respect to the coherence of OECD agricultural policies with the Millennium Development Goals’ objectives of reducing poverty and overcoming hunger in developing countries.Its findings include:the more comprehensive and deeper the liberalisation, the more likely that all countries can gainit makes sense, therefore, to include agricPages