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    Liberalization and regional integration: the Philippines' strategy to global competitiveness

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2001
    Globalization and the rapid development of information and communication technology have resulted to the deepened economic interdependence of nations and regions around the world. Markets are opened allowing producers to penetrate more markets and consumers to have greater choices.
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    Addressing the defaults of globalization

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2009
    Globalisation is not a new and recent phenomenon. Globalisation started right way at the beginning of the history of mankind, as soon as people began to communicate and trade with each other, to visit land beyond the horizon of their own livelihoods and to migrate to areas that promised better chances for survival and economic progress. So, globalisation is of all times.
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    Agricultural trade: planting the seeds of regional liberalization in Asia

    United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2007
    This publication brings together papers prepared for the “Regional Agricultural Trade Liberalization” project, which was implemented by the Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT) researchers between May 2005 and December 2006.
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    South Africa and China: the agricultural and fisheries trading relationship

    Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2008
    A feature of world trade over the last ten years has been the dramatic growth of China's trade with the world.  This paper examines the agricultural component of Chinese trade with South Africa, which it aims to place in broader perspective of China's global trading relationships.
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    Trade and the need to apply international corporate social responsibility (CSR) standards

    Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2005
    This paper identifies the differences, similarities and gaps between the trade, investment and corporate social responsibility agendas. It specifically aims to come up with concrete policy proposals in the areas of CSR, investment and trade policies at the (inter) governmental level.
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    China as a standard-setter: the examples of GM-cotton and ecological and food safety standards

    Asian Drivers Programme, Institute of Development Studies, 2006
    This paper examines the debates surrounding Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and the cotton industry, and its impact on the textile market. The role of China as a pace-setter in this context is also analysed.
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    Globalisation, liberalisation, and protectionism: The global framework affecting rural producers in developing countries

    Third World Network, 2006
    This paper provides an overview of the phenomenon of globalisation and its effects on the conditions of rural producers in developing countries. It begins by outlining the features of globalisation.
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    BRIDGE cutting edge pack on gender and trade

    BRIDGE, 2006
    Trade and trade liberalisation have very different impacts on women and men - which can result in fundamental shifts in gender roles, relationships and inequalities. Moreover increasing claims that countries should be enabled to "trade their way out of poverty" means that there is an urgent need to address how trade can promote gender equality and development.
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    From brain drain to brain gain: how the WTO can make migration a win-win

    Overseas Development Institute, 2005
    This short article examines the issues surrounding international free trade in labour markets.
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    Getting workers’ interests on the WTO agenda: an action guide for trade unionists

    International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 2005
    In the run up to the WTO’s 6th Ministerial Conference in December 2005 in Hong Kong, this trade union action guide provides background information as well as a number of tools with which to exert pressure on national governments and trade negotiators to ensure that the concerns trade unionists share globally about the latest round of negotiations are dealt with.

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