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  Trade and forests: why forest issues require attention in trade negotiations

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  This paper attempts to assess the impacts of trade negotiations on natural tropical forests, taking into account the context and regional dynamics both within and outside the forest sector.Findings:further liberalisation for agricultural products is likely to have a significant impact on forest areas, encouraging increased conversion to agricultural landWTO decisions on ecolabelling
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  Land liberalisation in Africa: inflicting collateral damage on women?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Is the World Bank’s approach to land relations gender insensitive? Is it realistic to pin poverty reduction aspirations on the promotion of credit markets and reliance on women’s unpaid labour? Does the acquisition of secure tenure rights necessarily benefit poor women? How should advocates of women’s rights in Africa respond to the Bank’s land agenda?
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  Multilateral investment agreement in the WTO: issues and illusions

  Asia Pacific Research Network, 2003

  This paper examines some of the key issues to be addressed at the WTO 5th Ministerial at Cancun.
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  Impacts of trade liberalization under the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) of the World Trade Organization: a case study of rice

  Asia Pacific Research Network, 2002

  This paper asks whether or not Thailand is going to benefit from the multilateral trade mechanism according to the Agreement on Agriculture. More particularly, whether or not the small-scale farmers are going to benefit from the agreement.The paper demonstrates that, even as Thailand calls itself an ‘agricultural country’, agricultural products are valued only as commodities.
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  World Trade Report 2003

  World Trade Organization, 2003

  WTR 2003 takes up three issues of topical interest in international trade:developments in South-South tradetrends in non-oil commodity marketsthe growth of regional trade agreementsSouth-South tradeWe see a marked expansionary trend, but one that is rather narrowly based in regional terms.
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  The Commonwealth and the WTO: strategies for a successful DOHA round: recommendations of the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC)

  Commonwealth Business Council, 2003

  The CBC invites Commonwealth Governments to adopt the following positions on the WTO and its Doha Development Agenda (DDA):to reaffirm the WTO’s market access raison d’être: the progressive liberalisation of trade in goods and services according to transparent, non-discriminatory rules, in both developed and developing countriesto reaffirm the development focus of the DDA and to honour
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  Korea's trade policy regime in the development process

  Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, 2002

  Trade policy has played a critical role in Korea’s development, but how does it need to change in response to the new multilateral trading regime? This paper addresses this question through a review and evaluation of Korea’s trade policy.
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  WTO and development: it’s all about mercantilist game

  Consumer Unity and Trust Society, India, 2003

  Why are the developed country members of the WTO so obsessed with making the organisation development-friendly, when developing countries are not so keen? This paper questions the new emerging role of the WTO, launched at Doha and carried forward to Cancun.
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  Cancun 2003: a look at trade and development in Latin America

  World Bank, 2003

  This short interview with the World Bank Chief Economist for the Middle East and North Africa Region briefly examines the regionally important issues for the WTO Ministerial in Cancun.Among the key questions discussed are:do bilateral and regional trade agreements in the region constitute building blocks or stumbling blocks for multilateral trade agreements?why is trade liberalisati
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  Cancun 2003: A look at trade and development in the Middle East and North Africa

  World Bank, 2003

  This short interview with the World Bank Chief Economist for the Middle East and North Africa Region briefly examines the regionally important issues for the WTO Ministerial in Cancun.Among the key issues identified are:trade in services: challenges remain with behind the border holding the region back yet opportunities exist for the region to benefit from increasing liberalisation in t

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