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Trade preferences and environmental goods
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003This short paper explores the possibilities and challenges of the liberalisation of environmental goods and services.DocumentThe global textile and clothing industry post the agreement on textiles and clothing
World Trade Organization, 2004This paper examines what the likely impacts of liberalisation of the clothing and textiles industries will be following the phasing out of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ACT) in January 2005.DocumentThe effects of trade liberalization on Jamaica's poor: an analysis of agriculture and services
Women's EDGE, 2004This study analyses the direct effects of trade liberalisation on the life of Jamaica’s poor. In order to so it uses the so-called Trade Impact Review (TIR), an economic tool developed by the Women’s edge coalition to assess the impact of trade on Jamaica’s poor.The general outcome of the study is that women are the most negatively affected by the consequences of trade liberalisation.DocumentSwaziland: in the pursuit of economic liberalisation and growth. How is poverty reproduced at the micro-level under changing labour market regimes?
Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004This paper addresses the question of why poverty is so pervasive in Swaziland despite substantial economic growth over the last several years. The author examines how macroeconomic developments have impacted on poverty within cross-border and domestic labour markets, and what measures can be taken to improve competitiveness in the labour market.DocumentTrade and migration: building bridges for global labour mobility
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004The temporary movement of service suppliers under Mode 4 of the WTO’s General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) has emerged as a major issue in current WTO negotiations. Given that it bridges both trade policies and migration policies it raises a number of complex issues.DocumentComparing EU free trade agreements: agriculture
European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2004Free trade agreements between the European Union (EU) and its respective trading partners reinforce the Uruguay Round process on a bilateral basis.DocumentTrade and Development Report 2004
United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2004The key message of this years Trade and Development Report, is that strategies based on the 'openness model' are not sufficient to lead to development through integration into the world economy.DocumentLinking economic policy to childhood poverty: a review of the evidence on growth, trade reform and macroeconomic policy
Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004This paper reviews the evidence concerning the impact of key macroeconomic and structural policies on poverty reduction in general and on children's wellbeing in particular.DocumentFiscal policy and growth in Africa: fiscal federalism, decentralization and the incidence of taxation
UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003The paper investigates the tax reforms undertaken in a sample of randomly selected five African countries, taken together, namely Egypt, Senegal, Gabon, Kenya and Zambia. Reflecting the government's greatly expanding role in the economy, total public sector expenditure increased rapidly over the last two decades. However, public sector revenue growth has not matched public expenditure growth.