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  Food security, farming, and climate change to 2050: scenarios, results, policy options

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2010

  This report addresses the potential scale and geography of climate change in order to identify which populations and areas will be most affected and to help policy makers facilitate adaptation.
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  Regional Trading Arrangements: Opportunities and Pitfalls for Bangladesh

  2012

  Historically, Bangladesh is not very active in participating in regional trading arrangements. Starting from 1976 Bangladesh has signed 4 regional preferential trading arrangements, 1 bilateral trading arrangement, and 2 free trade area agreements.
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  Regional trade agreements vs. multilateral trading system: a study of Chinese interests and policy options

  Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2009

  Since joining the WTO, China has pursued a three-pronged economic and trade development strategy of pushing forward regional and bilateral trade cooperation while enhancing multilateral trade and cooperation. Asia is especially important to China, and Asian economic cooperation is the foundation of China’s RTA policy.
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  Facing challenges of poverty, unemployment and inequalities in the Arab region: do policy choices of Arab governments still hold after the global crisis?

  Arab NGO Network for Development, 2009

  Countries in the Arab region are particularly vulnerable to the fallout of the global economic crisis as a result of already existing high levels of unemployment, dependency on food imports, widespread conflict and political insecurity and vulnerability to impact of climate change.
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  Navigating out of the crisis: a trade-led recovery: a practical guide for trade policymakers in Asia and the Pacific

  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2009

  Responding to the current economic and financial crisis, which is severely affecting global trade, is an unprecedented challenge for policy makers of the Asia-Pacific region. The severity and speed of the downturn was largely unpredicted and has triggered widespread populist pressure on governments to protect national markets and jobs through protectionist measures.
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  A partnership among equals: examining the EU-ASEAN free trade agreement

  Transnational Institute, 2009

  The negotiations for a regional FTA represent a key component of both the global and regional economic integration strategies of both the EU and ASEAN. A distinct feature of these negotiations is the region-to-region approach. In this context, the current report addresses some questions:
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  EU-MERCOSUR trade agreement: potential impacts on rural livelihoods and gender (with focus on bio-fuels feedstock expansion)

  Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2008

  The trade-sustainable impact assessments of the European Union-Mercosur trade agreement find that the social and environmental impacts of the trade liberalisation scenario would be mixed and potentially unfavourable. This paper addresses the likely effects on the livelihoods of vulnerable rural populations.
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  Including financial services in preferential trade agreements: lessons of international experience for China

  World Bank, 2009

  The objective of this paper is to address the main considerations for China of including financial services in its preferential trade agreements (PTAs). The paper compares and contrasts the different "architectural" approaches that have been used by countries to include financial services in such agreements, and identifies good practices in preparing for financial services negotiations.
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  Competition clauses in bilateral trade treaties: analysing the issues in the context of India's future negotiating strategy

  Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2008

  The failure to include competition provisions at the WTO multilateral framework provided the scope for including their inclusion at bilateral/regional level. However, there are large differences across free trade agreements (FTAs) in terms of how the competition provisions are addressed.
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  China-Africa economic relations: the case of Uganda

  African Economic Research Consortium, 2008

  China's economic influence in Africa has been increasing over the years. The China-Africa summit held in November 2006 resulted in an estimated $ 1.9 billion in trade and investment deals, and pledges to double Chinese aid to Africa by 2009. But how do Africans perceive Sino-Chinese economic relations?

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