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  Africa and the WTO Doha Round: An Overview

  Development Policy Review, 2007

  Developing countries, and especially Least Developed Countries, were promised a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ‘Development Round’ at Doha in 2001, but Sub-Saharan African countries have gained little so far, seeing the discussions as irrelevant to them.
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  Special and Differential Treatment of developing countries in the World Trade Organization

  Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 2006

  This online book starts from the premise that, as the international trading system has developed over time and grown more complex, the importance of Special and Differential Treatment (SDT) has increased. The study analyses the development of the provisions for special and differential treatment within the WTO system and the actual and potential development effects of existing provisions.
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  Evolution in the multilateral trade regime: refining and strengthening special and differential treatment

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2006

  This article focuses on the special and differential treatment (SDT) of the developing economies in the multilateral trade regime.
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  Bilateral trade agreements and the world trading system

  ADB Institute, 2006

  Why have bilateral trade agreements (BTAs) been proliferating? What are their impacts on multilateralism and the world trading system? The key to answering these questions, this paper argues, is identifying the factors that have motivated their creation.
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  Special products and safeguard mechanisms: strategic options for developing countries

  International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2005

  This paper starts from the premise that subsidy and tariff cuts under the Doha Round will not be uniformly good for all farmers in all developing countries, and that opening markets to competition from cheap – often subsidised – foreign imports may devastate the livelihoods of small and resource-poor farming communities.The paper notes that a food security strategy based solely on imported food
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  Special and differential treatment in the area of trade facilitation

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2006

  The objective of this study is to offer reflections on how special and differential treatment (SDT) for trade facilitation may be shaped by the cost implications of measures included in future WTO trade agreements.
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  Special and differential treatment under the GATS

  OECD Development Centre, 2006

  This report sets out the particular approach to special and differential treatment (SDT) in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). In particular, the report explores how the degree of flexibility afforded to all Members under the GATS shapes its approach to SDT. Further, the report analyses the current proposals for improving SDT provisions in the context of the GATS.
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  Aid for trade - why and how?

  International Lawyers and Economists Against Poverty, 2005

  This paper takes the position that the WTO’s Doha Round will promote development only if two conditions are met. First, an ambitious and balanced market access package in key areas such as agriculture or services. Second, an expanded "aid for trade” (AFT) package, both in general and with particular reference to the Doha Development Agenda process.
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  Doha Round Briefing Series

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005

  This set of 13 briefing papers provide an update on events leading up to and beyond the Kong Hong Ministerial Meeting in December 2005, written in an accessible way. They provide necessary contextual information on the complex agreements and policies encompassed by Doha; a diary of events in the months running up to Hong Kong, and reflections on the Ministerial itself.
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  Africa in the Doha Round: dealing with preference erosion and beyond

  International Monetary Fund, 2005

  Improving market access in industrial countries and retaining preferences have been Africa’s two key objectives in the Doha Round trade negotiations.

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