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    Transparency and trade facilitation in the Asia-Pacific: estimating the gains from reform

    World Bank Publications, 2007
    This document carries out an analysis of the gains from improving transparency in APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation). It particularly focuses on two main touchstones of policy transparency that it identifies; predictability and simplification.
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    South African quotas on Chinese clothing and textiles: has there been sufficient economic justification?

    Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2007
    South Africa imposed quotas on the importation of selected clothing lines from China to slow the trade flow of imports. This paper answers the question whether those quotas are meeting their goal. To do so, it examines the changes in the trade flows of clothing since the introduction of the quotas.
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    South Asian Free Trade Agreement: prospects for shallow regional integration

    Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, 2007
    This paper attempts to understand the incentives for and progress towards greater economic integration among members of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). It notes that the acceptance of the SAARC concept was slow.
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    Agricultural liberalization in preferential trading agreements: the case of the ASEAN FTA

    United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2006
    The slow pace of multilateral trade negotiations has led to a spread of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) at bilateral and regional levels. This paper explores the capacity of PTAs to deliver trade liberalisation notably with regard to agriculture. Agricultural liberalisation is a sensitive topic for a number of reasons:
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    Evolving wave of competition in the international market: Challenges for Africa through the rise of China and India

    African Economic Research Consortium, 2007
    China's and India's rising demand for commodities has contributed to recent GDP growth in Africa. Both countries have lowered their tariffs on imports from Africa and China has also granted preferential treatment to some countries.
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    EPAs: a plan ‘A+’

    Groupe d'Economie Mondiale, 2007
    The authors criticise the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) currently proposed by the EU to the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACPs). They point out that those EPAs will prove extremely costly to the ACP economies. If EU products entered the ACP markets duty-free, they could be priced above world market prices. This would cause losses to ACP consumers and governments.
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    Ten as one; challenges and opportunities for ASEAN integration

    United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2007
    Focusing on development gaps among ASEAN members countries, this report evaluates ongoing initiatives for regional cooperation and identifies where these need to be strengthened and broadened in order to narrow the development gaps.
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    Multinationals and the maquila mindset in Mexico’s Silicon Valley

    Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 2007
    In joining the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Mexico expected a rise in foreign direct investment (FDI) that would bring environmental benefits through the growth of cleaner industry sectors, transfer of technology, and better management practices. This article examines why this was not the case.
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    Demystifying trade in services: a strategic guide for ACP EPA negotiators

    South Centre, 2007
    African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries are in the midst of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) negotiations with the European Union (EU). Trade in services is renowned as one of the most complicated areas of these negotiations. This fact sheet simplifies the legal principles and rules, as well as concepts that govern international and regional trade in services.
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    Geography and development in Africa: overview and implications for regional cooperation

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2007
    How does geography impact on Africa’s economic development? This paper argues that geographical syndromes are central to Africa’s poor economic performance. It focuses on the proximity syndrome, where the cumulative result of long distances to markets, being landlocked, and suboptimal agglomeration patterns undermine the regions economic potential.

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