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  Trade protection and inter-industry wages in India

  Poverty Research Unit, Sussex, 2004

  This paper examines whether the impact of India's tariff reductions during the 1990s conform to the predictions of the Ricardo-Viner trade model and the other channels through which trade affects relative wages.
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  The impact of trade liberalisation on employment, capital, and productivity dynamics: evidence from the Uruguayan manufacturing sector

  2004

  This paper studies the impact of trade liberalisation on labour and capital gross flows and productivity in the Uruguayan manufacturing sector. At least initially, Uruguay opened its economy in the presence of strong unions and structurally different industry concentration levels.
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  Global economic challenges to ASEAN integration and competitiveness: a prospective look

  Australian Agency for International Development, 2004

  This report takes a forward-looking view of ASEAN in the context of a rapidly changing world economy. The report explores what a commitment to the goal of a single market or complete economic integration implies.
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  Learning from success

  International Monetary Fund, 2005

  What might the many developing countries that have been less successful against poverty learn from China’s experience? And what can China learn for its continuing efforts against poverty? Based on survey data spanning 1980–2001, This article unpacks an analysis of China’s record against poverty spanning 1980 - 2001.
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  Six reasons to oppose EPAs in their current form

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2004

  This paper is a response from leading ACP and EU civil society organisations to some of the key arguments put forward in support of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) as currently envisaged by the EU.
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  Coping with trade reforms: implications of the WTO industrial tariff negotiations for developing countries

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2005

  This report examines the impact of trade liberalisation in industrial products as envisaged under the current WTO talks on developing countries. The study demonstrates that WTO proposals on industrial goods liberalisation could lead to a substantial gains for developing countries, particularly regarding exports.
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  Developing country proposals for the liberalisation of movements of natural service suppliers

  Sussex Centre for Migration Research, 2005

  This paper is about developing countries' proposals in the GATS negotiations on the liberalisation of the movement of natural persons to provide services - Mode 4.
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  WTO agreement on agriculture: a decade of dumping

  Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 2005

  This paper documents the widespread dumping of agricultural products by global agribusiness companies based in the United States and European Union. It provides an extensive appendix with data and calculations from 1990 to 2003 for five commodities grown in the U.S. and sold on the world market: wheat, corn (maize), soybean (soya), rice and cotton.An examination of U.S.
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  Trade policy processes: is there space for civil society participation?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  When civil society actors attempt to participate in the trade arena they often find that they are confronted with technical complexity, structural inequality and powerful pre-set agendas. Despite these obstacles, new pro-poor alliances are being created around trade policy which offer some cause for optimism.
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  Quantifying the transport, regulatory and other costs of Indian overland exports to Bangladesh

  National Council of Applied Economic Research, India, 2004

  Even in an increasingly globalised world, informal trade barriers still exist and inhibit trade flows, particularly in developing countries, due to factors such as complex customs procedures, capacity constraints and corruption at the border.

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