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  Preliminary note on financial crisis and trade and investment treaties

  Third World Network, 2009

  This policy note states that north-south free trade agreements (FTAs), bilateral investment treaties (BTIs) and WTO commitments often contain a number of provisions that can increase the likelihood of a financial crisis. Moreover, these provisions make it more difficult to take the necessary measures to deal with such crisis once it occurs.
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  EU-China agricultural trade in relation to China's WTO membership

  International Food and Agribusiness Management Association, 2008

  China’s trade with the world doubled after joining the World Trade Organisation (WTO). On the other hand, the European Union (EU) and China are two of the biggest markets in the world, and both are actively trading with each other. China is increasingly becoming an important destination for EU agricultural exporters.
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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 policy options for Nigeria: a GTAP simulation analysis

  Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2007

  Nigeria exports mainly fuels and mining products to the US and the EU. Nigerian exports have effectively duty-free access into both of these destinations while Nigerian tariffs are high by international standards.
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  Signing away the future: How trade and investment agreements between rich and poor countries undermine development

  Oxfam, 2007

  This briefing paper argues that trade and investment are essential for development, and the imbalances that characterise and distort global trade and investment rules must be addressed as a matter of urgency.
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  A depreciating asset, too high a price: the implications of the decision to end EU export subsidies by 2013: and why dumping will continue

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2006

  This brief critically examines the draft agreement reached at the end of the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial by the European Union to put and end date of 2013 on its export subsidies.
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  Global and EU agricultural trade reform: what is in it for Tanzania, Uganda and Sub-Saharan Africa?

  Trinity College, Dublin, 2005

  This discussion paper focuses on the effects of total agricultural trade liberalisation (TAL) in Uganda and Tanzania using the Agricultural Trade Policy Simulation Model (ATPSM) which estimates the effects of total agricultural liberalisation (TAL) on:prices and terms of trade on changes in supplydemand and trade flowson welfare effects for producers and consumers.Estim
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  Growth and opportunity (African civil society perspectives on growth and opportunity)

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This paper captures perspectives of development activists in civil society and social movements in Africa.
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  EU–ACP Economic Partnership Agreements: the effects of reciprocity

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This briefing discusses the potential implications of the EPAs, as reflected in recent research from the IDS.
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  Divide and rule: the EU and US response to developing country alliances at the WTO

  ActionAid International, 2004

  This report revisits the Cancún Ministerial Conference of the WTO, and explores the new balance of forces which presented itself at the conference, and exposes the threats and pressures which developing countries faced at the Ministerial, as well as the strategies which have been used against them since.The report points out that the Ministerial itself saw the emergence of several strong groupi