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  Global Economic Prospects 2005: trade, regionalism and development

  Prospects for Development [World Bank], 2005

  The proliferation of regional trade agreements is fundamentally altering the world trade landscape. The number of agreements in force surpasses 200 and has risen eight-fold in two decades. Today as much as 40 percent of global trade takes place among countries that have some form of reciprocal regional trade agreement.
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  Globalization’s bystanders: does globalization hurt countries that do not participate?

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper asks how globalisation by the larger part of the world’s economy has affected those countries that have not participated. It uses a trade theory to examine the effects of trade liberalisation on countries that do not participate in multilateral trade negotiations, and countries that lie outside of preferential trading arrangements such as free trade areas (FTA).
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  Globalisation and the environment: lessons from the Americas

  Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2004

  This report examines the environmental impacts of trade reform policies in the Americas. It is the product of a series of studies by the "Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas", which includes development and environmental economists from the regions.The report shows that in Latin America the environment has so far not profited from globalisation.
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  Lessons learned on trade and sustainable development

  Trade Knowledge Network, 2004

  Drawing on six years of research from the Trade Knowledge Network (TKN), this paper provides an analysis of the subset of the issues touched on by the TKN research.
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  The EU-ACP trade negotiations: why EPAs need a rethink

  Christian Aid, 2004

  This policy brief reviews the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), which were signed between the EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries as part of the Cotonou Agreement.The brief states that after failing to do so at the WTO talks, the EU now uses the EPAs to push free trade via the back door into the ACP countries.
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  EPAs: the hidden danger

  Traidcraft, 2004

  As part of a series of 10 briefing papers forming a "Fair Trade Tool Kit", this brief examines the hidden dangers of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), which are the trade pillars of the wider Cotonou Agreement signed between the EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.The brief states four reasons why why EPAs are a bad deal for poor countries:The EU is making gr
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  Trading accountability: business, trade and investment policy and sustainable development

  AccountAbility, 2004

  This report looks beneath the discussions on the overarching architecture of multilaterally negotiated trade rules, into the everyday trade and investment decisions, in order to get a better basis for determining how approaches to trade and investment policy can support sustainable development within competitive international markets.By exploring how the interaction of individual companies with
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  Comparing EU free trade agreements: services

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2004

  The aim of this short paper is to provide a an overview of service sector provisions, as laid down in the various trade agreements (FTAs) recently concluded by the European Union with developing countries.A comparison of FTAs concluded by the EU with third countries suggests there is a general trend towards liberalising trade in services.
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  The Development Round of trade negotiations in the aftermath of Cancun

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 2004

  This report presents an alternative way forward for the Doha Round.
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  The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture: a review of progress and challenges in the SADC region

  Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, 2003

  The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (URAA) bears important implications for developing countries, including those of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), whose agricultural sectors are critical to economic growth, poverty alleviation and food security.

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