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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 economics of the “non-market economy” issue: Vietnam catfish case study

    Mekong Economics Ltd., Hanoi, Vietnam, 2003
    The market/non-market economy distinction evolved during a time in which there was a clear divide between economies pursuing market-based economic and economies which were primarily centrally-planned.This paper:considers the concept of a non-market economy from a broad economic perspective as well as from the more narrow definition related to anti-dumpinganalyses the US Department o
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    Agricultural policies in OECD countries: monitoring and evaluation 2002

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2002
    Agricultural trade policy is at the centre of debate. The WTO is now re-negotiating the Agreement of Agriculture (AoA), while the European Union is working at the reform of the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) which should be implemented by 2006.
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    Trade and poverty: background briefing

    Department for International Development, UK, 2002
    The reduction in barriers to international trade can increase and create incomes for the poor and provide more resources to fight poverty.This paper:describes the impact of liberalisation on household and individual income levels identifies three channels through which trade reform affects poverty, that is prices, enterprise and government revenueanalyses how policy-making decis
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    Managing the invisible hand

    WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2002
    Agriculture and trade are important development tools. However, trade liberalisation does not necessarily fulfil the developmental objectives that should be at the basis of WTO and most of the multilateral agreements.Multilateral negotiations for agriculture are crossing a particularly delicate phase.
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    The least developed countries and world trade

    SIDA Studies, 2001
    This study interlinks the internal and external factors that affect LDCs' opportunities to participate in world trade. An account is given of the marginal role of LDCs in the World Trade Organisation, and in the global regulatory framework.
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    Is globalisation good for Africa?

    School of Economics and Commercial Law, Göteborg University, Sweden, 2002
    Globalisation or market integration in Sub-Saharan Africa is closely linked to the structural adjustment programmes.
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    The impact on Uganda of agricultural trade liberalisation

    Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2002
    This paper evaluates the impact on Uganda of the liberalisation of world trade, especially in agricultural commodities, as proposed in the Uruguay Round.It draws three broad conclusions.
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    Does globalization help the poor?

    Alternet, 2002
    This article criticises the negative impact of the advocates of of economic globalization (World Bank; IMF; WTO) on the world's poor.The article finds that:the advocates of globalisation stress that those that oppose globalisation are hurting the poor by arresting the development of free trade and liberalisationeconomic globalisation is causing an acceleration in poverty and inequal
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    Testing the induced innovation hypothesis in South African agriculture : an error correction approach

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    Apparently factor prices do matter in agricultural production and in the selection of production technology. And in South Africa, more attention should be focused on the technological needs of small scale farmers.

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