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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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  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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  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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  The World Trade Organization and forests

  World Rainforest Movement, 2002

  This paper assesses the impact of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the future of forests. It presents information from the stand point that there is a need to radically modify, what it terms as, the current corporate-led approach to international trade.It presents arguments on free trade vs.
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  On the road to Cancún: a development perspective on EU trade policies

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  Part I: This section gives an outline of policy perspectives that inform EU trade policies as well as a development perspective in examining those policies. It discusses the issue of adjustment in the EU and evaluates the EU's track record in the liberalisation of key industries of interest to developing countries.
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  Can liberalisation boost farming in Southern Africa?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Have structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) reduced discrimination against agriculture in southern Africa? Does price liberalisation, by increasing production and employment really reduce poverty and the incentive to migrate to towns and cities? Or are deeper changes needed?
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  A development perspective on EU trade policies and their implications for Central and Eastern European countries

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2003

  This paper discusses the issue of adjustment in the EU and evaluates the EU track record in key industries of interest to developing countries. It also evaluates the EU commitment to environmentally sustainable policies and reviews the various EU technical regulations or social policies against the above two perspectives.
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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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  U.S. dumping on world agricultural markets: can trade rules help farmers?

  WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2003

  Dumping, the practice of selling products at prices far below their production costs, is a serious distortion for developing countries’ markets, because it threatens their food security, rural livelihood, poverty reduction and trade.This happens essentially for two reasons:imports of dumped products can drive developing country farmers out of their businessagricultural producers who

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