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  Forthcoming changes in the EU banana and sugar markets: a menu ofoptions for an effective EU transitional package

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  Preferential access under the EU’s Sugar and Banana Protocols has supported large income transfers to a number of ACP countries. These transfers will be reduced under proposed reforms to the EU’s sugar and banana markets which are due to take place at the end of 2005.
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  EU sugar reform; the implications for the development of LDCs

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This study argues that the granting of unlimited duty-free access under the EBA (Everything But Arms) Agreement will coincide with reform of the EU sugar regime, which is expected to lead to significant price reductions in the EU market.
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  The wrong ointment: why the EU's proposals for free trade with Africa will not heal its scar of poverty

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2004

  This paper argues that the UK Government's positive focus on poverty reduction in Africa is being seriously undermined by the inequitable bilateral free trade agreements currently being negotiated between the Europe Union and African countries.The paper highlights that the European Union is asking African countries to liberalise 90% of their markets over 10 years whilst at the same time refusin
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  Are Economic Partnership Agreements likely to promote or constrain regional integration in southern Africa?: options, limits and challenges Botswana, Mauritius and Mozambique are facing

  Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit, 2004

  The vast majority of the South African Development Community (SADC) and Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) countries belong to the group of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states. As such they are also members of the Cotonou Agreement which grants Europe’s former colonies preferential, non-reciprocal access to the EU market.
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  The EC traceability and equivalence rules in light of the SPS Agreement: a review of the main legal issues

  Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 2003

  This study sets forth the major legal issues in connection with the WTO legality of the European Union’s sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) legislation as well as the traceability rules to come into force on 1 January 2005.
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  On the road to Cancún: a development perspective on EU trade policies

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  Part I: This section gives an outline of policy perspectives that inform EU trade policies as well as a development perspective in examining those policies. It discusses the issue of adjustment in the EU and evaluates the EU's track record in the liberalisation of key industries of interest to developing countries.
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  A development perspective on EU trade policies and their implications for Central and Eastern European countries

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2003

  This paper discusses the issue of adjustment in the EU and evaluates the EU track record in key industries of interest to developing countries. It also evaluates the EU commitment to environmentally sustainable policies and reviews the various EU technical regulations or social policies against the above two perspectives.
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  Milking the CAP: how Europe's dairy regime is devastating livelihoods in the developing world

  Oxfam, 2002

  EU surpluses of milk and milk products are dumped on world markets using costly export subsidies, which destroy people’s livelihoods in some of the world’s poorest countries.Dairy dumping is a worrying problem because milk producers in developing countries cannot compete effectively with European milk producers who are heavily subsidised by their governments.
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  Europe's double standards: how the EU should reform its trade policies with the developing world

  Oxfam, 2002

  The European Union has made much benefit to developing countries, but there is still a lot to do for reaching economic development and poverty eradication.This paper points out the worst features of EU trade policy, including:spending $41 billion a year on agricultural subsidies, regardless the negative effects that they can exert on developing countries economiesfailing to allow de
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  The great EU sugar scam: how Europe's sugar regime is devastating livelihoods in the developing world

  Oxfam, 2002

  Under the common agricultural policy (CAP), the EU has emerged as the world's largest exporter of white sugar. Subsidies and tariffs generate vast profits for big sugar processors and large farmers whilst vast surpluses are dumped on world markets.This briefing paper highlights that the EU's sugar regime is in opposition to the theory of comparative advantage.