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  Trade Liberalisation and the Crop Sector in Bangladesh

  Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2003

  The liberalisation of the crop sector in Bangladesh will affect more than just production and imports. As the source of staple food, livelihood and employment for millions of people, changes in the crop sector could have far-reaching impacts on poverty and welfare. This paper addresses some of these issues and their implications.
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  WWF Briefing Series: a guide to Cancun and the environment

  WWF Cancún Page, 2003

  Series of briefing papers presenting WWF recommended actions for the 5th Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization in Cancun.
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  Introduction to the development box: finding space for development concerns in the WTO's agricultural negotiations

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2003

  This paper introduces the Development Box, a package of proposals made by a dozen or so developing countries concerned that existing WTO rules for agriculture are undermining food security and rural livelihoods in their countries. The Development Box (DB) offers possible exceptions to the trade rules to meet the needs of countries with few resources and urgent food security needs.
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  How important are market access issues for developing countries in the Doha agenda?

  Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2002

  The aim of this paper is that of going "back to basics", focusing on the importance of market access issues for developing countries in the WTO negotiations begun in Doha in 2001.The paper attempts to address the following questions:will developing countries gain from further reducing their applied rates in agriculture?Would be in their interest adding industrial goods among the sec
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  Implementation issues of the Agreement on Agriculture and its implications for developing countries

  Economic Research Foundation, India, 2001

  The Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) was an attempt to impose discipline on global agricultural trade by removing trade distortions resulting from unrestricted use of production and export subsidies and import barriers, both tariff and non-tariff.
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  The great water robbery

  One World Action, 2002

  Water is a precious resource and nowadays it is becoming more and more limited.
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  Water privatisation in SSA: Progress, problems and policy implications

  Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002

  A large number of countries in the Sub-Saharian African (SSA) region have privatised water supply. But water is not like other commodities. The SSA are extremely poor and often subject to financial crises, therefore it is particularly difficult to promote the water sector as an attractive business prospect.
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  Regional cooperation and the role of international organizations and regional integration

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2002

  This paper examines the issue of regional cooperation among neighboring developing countries in the area of regional public goods.
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  Biodiversity rights legislation

  GRAIN, 2002

  Biodiversity Rights Legislation (BRL) is a collection of emerging laws that directly affect people's control over agricultural biodiversity in developing countries. It compiles those legislative texts that define rights in relation to genetic resources or to the knowledge associated with those materials.
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  Agriculture negotiations: the issues, and where we are now

  World Trade Organization, 2002

  A "backgrounder" on agriculture negotiations at the WTO updated to cover the end of phase 2 of the ongoing negotiations and future tasks under the Doha mandate.The report gives details of proposals recieved during phases 1 and 2 and the various country groupings and alliances formed during this process. It also contains an issue based analysis of progress made and future objectives.

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