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    Systemic crises and growth

    National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2005
    Given the fact that over the last two decades, countries that have experienced financial crises have on average grown faster than countries with stable financial conditions, this paper explores the link between occasional financial crises and the growth rate of a country.The study finds that: there is a robust link between systemic risk and growth: fast growing countries tend to experie
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    Food safety and agricultural health standards: challenges and opportunities for developing country exports

    World Bank, 2005
    The report summarises the findings of a World Bank research program on sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures, which was designed to improve understanding of an emerging set of policy and commercial issues in the area of food safety and agricultural health.Key findings presented in the report include:developing countries facing the challenges of rising health and food safety standard
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    The Agreement on Safeguards: use of the instrument, problem areas, and proposals for change

    National Board of Trade, Sweden, 2004
    The use of safeguards has been steadily increasing since the Agreement of Safeguards (ASG) entered into force in 1995. All safeguard measures that to date have been brought before dispute settlement in the WTO have been found to be inconsistent with the ASG. The reasons for this differ, but include:not observing the requirement of parallelism - i.e.
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    Gender and labour market liberalisation in Africa

    African Labour Research Network, 2004
    This report examines the liberalisation of the labour market in Africa from a gender perspective. It analyses current economic and labour policies of seven African countries to see their impact on the labour force and the organised labour movement in general, and women in particular.
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    The rush to regionalism: sustainable development and regional/bilateral approaches to trade and investment liberalisation

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2004
    In the light of an ever increasing number of regional investment and trade agreements, this paper examines the links between sustainable development and the trend of economic regionalism.It identifies a number of areas which need improvement:there is a need for more complete knowledge of what agreements are currently being negotiated or planned, and what elements they contain more
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    Global agricultural trade and developing countries

    World Bank, 2005
    This book explores the outstanding issues in global agricultural trade policy and evolving world production and trade patterns.The first part of the book replies to the questions raised by researchers and policymakers about agricultural trade regimes and trade performance:"The evolution of agricultural trade flows," by Ataman Aksoy, gives a bird’s-eye view of the changes in global agric
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    Groundnut policies, global trade dynamics, and the impact of trade liberalisation

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2004
    Using a new partial-equilibrium, multi-market, international model, the study analyses the impact of removing major policy distortions on world prices, trade flows, and welfare for major producing and trading countries involved in the groundnut market.Findings of the study include:trade liberalisation in groundnut markets has a strong South-South dimension with policies in India, and to
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    Moving people to deliver services: how can the WTO help?

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2004
    The paper explores how the agenda of developing countries and of multinational corporations concerning the GATS negotiations on the ‘temporary presence of natural persons’ (mode 4) converge and how this coincidence of interest could be harnessed to deliver greater openness at least for skilled service providers.
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    Trade and poverty mainstreaming: lessons from Southern Africa

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004
    This draft paper looks at the links between trade and poverty but does not dwell on the pros and cons of trade liberalisation.
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    Capabilities approach to trade and sustainable development: using Sen's conception of development to re-examine the debates

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2004
    This paper explores the development approach of the Nobel laureate Amartya Sen - i.e.

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