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Agricultural trade reform and poverty reduction in developing countries
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2004This paper assesses the opportunities and challenges provided by the WTO’s Doha Development Agenda, particularly with regards to agricultural trade liberalisation and its impact on trade of low-income countries. Observations of the study include:consumers in developed countries are more concerned with food safety and the environment than with the price-raising effect of agricultural proDocumentThe need for Special Products and Special Safeguard Mechanisms for agriculture in the WTO: a situational analysis
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004This paper argues that developing countries need to identify the areas in multilateral trade rules that are required to facilitate the achievement of goals in food security, livelihoods and rural development needs.DocumentThe Development Round of trade negotiations in the aftermath of Cancun
Commonwealth Secretariat, 2004This report presents an alternative way forward for the Doha Round.DocumentEconomic Report on Africa 2004
UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2004The Economic Report on Africa (ERA) 2004 examines general and regional statistics on economic growth in Africa and concludes that while African countries have marked significant economic growth, they are far from meeting their Millennium Development Goal targets. Additionally, they are not growing fast enough to eliminate poverty.DocumentAgriculture: remarkable turn-around from Cancun
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2004This article from the Bridges Weekly Trade Digest provides an early summary of Annex A of the 31 July WTO General Council Decision.DocumentInternational development frameworks, policies, priorities and implications: a basic guide for NGOs
Oxfam, 2003This manual is designed to help development non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to better understand the major influences shaping international development aid.DocumentMainstreaming trade in national development strategies: an issues paper
UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2004The aim of this paper is to summarise and review the mix of policy actions, both domestic and international, necessary to mainstream trade in national development strategies.DocumentAnalytical study of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the fundamental principle of non-discrimination in the context of globalization
United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, 2004This report considers how globalisation has brought new attention to the principle of non-discrimination by:providing opportunities for increasing commercial and cultural exchangehighlighting inequalities within and between countriesIt argues that the prohibition of discrimination provides an essential principle for globalisation.DocumentTwenty-five ways to improve the Derbez draft on agriculture
International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council, USA, 2004This paper presents the IPC's assessment of the proposal that Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez presented at the Cancun Ministerial Meeting, and which will be the basis for further multilateral trade negotiations.The paper provides an analysis of 25 key elements of the Derbez proposal, including:tariff reduction formulastariff ceilingsexpanding tariff rate quotasiDocumentWTO decision on implementation of paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health: a solution to the access to essential medicines problem?
Publishers WWW sites, 2004This article from the Journal of International Economic Law looks at the problem identified in paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health – namely that of ensuring access to low-cost essential medicines in developing countries in the context of compulsory licensing provisions.Pages