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  Trade and poverty in Mauritius: impact of European Union sugar reforms on the livelihood of sugar cane workers

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2011

  Sugar cane remains a major contributor to the Mauritian economy.  Over the last 30 years Mauritius has benefited from the EU Sugar Protocol with net sugar revenues estimated at €4 billion over this period. However, the success of the industry and its revenue contribution to socio-economic development is under threat due to EU sugar reform.
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  Reforming the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: health check, budget review, Doha Round

  European centre for international political economy, 2008

  While the European Commission has tabled a proposal for reforming the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the World Trade Organisation (WTO) might necessitate further decisions on agricultural tariff cuts at any time. Related to that, this policy brief argues in favour of a fundamental reform of agricultural policy in the European Union (EU).
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  A positive agenda for African agriculture in EPAs

  South Centre, 2008

  This South Centre Analytical Note provides an overview of the provisions on agriculture contained in the interim Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) initiated in late 2007 by the EU and 35 countries of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP).
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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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  Between protectionism, poverty orientation, and market efficiency: reform of the EU sugar market organisation

  Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2005

  The paper examines impacts of the reform of the European sugar market regime, arguing that the reform will have substantial impacts on developing countries and will also be of highly symbolic value for the ongoing liberalisation of the agricultural policies of industrialised countries.The article highlights that:the reform of the European sugar market organisation (SMO), which has until
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  Who gains from sugar quotas?

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This report examines the impact of the impending reform of the EU sugar regime.
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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 heroes and villains: which countries are living up to their promises on aid, trade, and debt?

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2005

  This paper considers the heroes and villains in the EU’s 25-member bloc in terns of their commitments to aid, trade and debt.Findings of the study include:25 years after the commitment to give 0.7 per cent of GNI as foreign aid, only Luxembourg, Sweden, the Netherlands and Denmark have reached the target and 21 countries are still below the benchmark, with Italy, Austria, Portugal and G
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  Sugar polices: opportunities for change

  Adapting to Change [The World Bank Group], 2004

  Sugar is one of the most policy distorted of all commodities, and the European Union, Japan, and the United States are among the worst offenders.
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  Accomplishing a sustainable agricultural model for Europe through the reformed CAP: Sugar sector reform

  European Union, 2004

  This paper discusses the recent findings of the Common Agricultural Policy Commission set up to examine the current sugar trade regime.The Commission proposes the following measures:a significant reduction, in two steps, of the institutional support price for EUsugar with the abolition of intervention and the introduction of a reference pricethe introduction of partial compensation

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