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  Agricultural trade reform and the Doha development agenda

  World Bank, 2005

  This working paper examines the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral trade reform over the next decade.
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  Mobilising smallholder labour in oil palm production: results of the mobile card trial, Hoskins, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea

  Curtin University of Technology, Research Unit for the Study of Societies in Change, 2004

  Under-harvesting in the smallholder oil palm sector leads to substantial production losses amongst outgrowers. At Hoskins in Papua New Guinea losses were estimated at around 25% of production with the main causes related to a shortage of labour supply.This paper reviews a payment trial at Hoskins that was designed to increase the supply of labour and so raise productivity.
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  The implications of supermarket development for horticultural farmers and traditional marketing systems in Asia

  Agricultural Marketing, FAO, 2005

  This paper, based on a workshop brining together supermarket representatives, wholesalers, government officials, farmer representatives and those who work with farmers, at a workshop in Kuala Lumpur in October 2004 , explores the implications of a rapid growth in supermarkets on farmers in Asia.The paper points out that significant changes are taking place in fresh produce retailing in m
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  NAFTA's promise and reality: lessons from Mexico for the Hemisphere

  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003

  The report has two objectives: to determine how quality of life in Mexico has been affected by trade liberalisation in North America. It focuses on the microlevel of people and their communities, on changes in household income, paychecks, rural employment and agricultural production.
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  Understanding the issues: what's the matter with trade?

  Norwegian Church Aid, 2005

  This is a set of papers that address the questions: do equal rules really allow poor producers to receive a fair share of the trade wealth and does the current free trade system represent equal rules at all?
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  An evaluation of the impacts of economic reform on performance of agriculture in Ethiopia

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2005

  In an effort to boost agricultural productivity the Ethiopian government has embarked on implementing policy reforms since 1991. This paper uses the stochastic frontier production function to examine technical, allocative and economic efficiency in crop production using farm level data from 1993/94 and 2000/01 production years in post-reform Ethiopia.
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  Off-farm employment, factor market development and input use in farm production: a case study of a remote village in Jiangxi Province, China

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2005

  The objective of this paper is to analyse the impact of off-farm employment on village factor market development, and estimate the effects of off-farm employment on input use in farm production (especially inputs related to the change of land production capacity).The paper identifes four household groups which at group level show large differences in terms of household size, number of labourers
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  Addressing the impact of preference erosion in bananas on Caribbean countries

  Department for International Development, UK, 2004

  This report sets out to assess the impact on the Caribbean of the reform – or tariffication - of the EU Common Organisation of the Market in Bananas (COMB), moving EU preference from a tariff/quota to a tariff only regime.A survey of earlier erosions in trade preferences demonstrates:the progressive erosion in trade preferences has already had a significant impact on Caribbean banana pr
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  Planting the rights seed: a human rights perspective on agriculture trade and the WTO

  Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 2005

  The report critically examines the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Agriculture (AoA).
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  Global employment trends: brief 2005

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  This Brief focuses on increasing employment and poverty alleviation, and improving the conditions of work in the global economy. The paper reviews the labour market trends of 2004 and identifies and addresses six key labour market challenges for 2005.

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