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  Trade liberalisation and the environment in Vietnam

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2006

  This paper analyses Vietnam’s shift in trading and investment patterns with a particular focus on the environmental implications resulting from greater openness of the economy over the past decade.The paper finds that:following liberalisation manufacturing output has been significantly higher from the water pollution intensive sectors compared to the less pollution intensive sectors
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  Integrated assessment of the impact of trade liberalization on the rice sector

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2005

  This document provides a synthesis of the integrated assessment studies conducted in the third, most recent, round of country projects commissioned by UNEP, which focused on the rice sector. It provides a detailed analysis of the environmental, social and economic implications of trade liberalisation in the rice sector in China, Colombia, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Senegal and Viet Nam.
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  Capabilities approach to trade and sustainable development: using Sen's conception of development to re-examine the debates

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2004

  This paper explores the development approach of the Nobel laureate Amartya Sen - i.e.
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  Trade, environment and development: the recent Argentine experience

  Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2004

  This paper examines the impact of trade liberalisation on the environment in both the manufacturing and the agricultural sectors in Argentina.
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  Globalisation and the environment: lessons from the Americas

  Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2004

  This report examines the environmental impacts of trade reform policies in the Americas. It is the product of a series of studies by the "Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas", which includes development and environmental economists from the regions.The report shows that in Latin America the environment has so far not profited from globalisation.
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  Can the south afford to go green?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  How does trade impact on the environment? Why do many southern governments regard environmental protection as a low priority? Are they justified in thinking that pressures to clean up their environmental act are part of a deceitful northern trade protectionism agenda? Could the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) have benefits for the south?
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  A Framework for Assessing the Relationship between Trade Liberalization and Biodiversity Conservation

  Trade, Investment and Sustainable Development Programme, IISD, 1998

  Paper develops an analytical framework for assessing the effects of trade liberalization on biodiversity conservation. The framework is designed for individuals preparing or analyzing country biodiversity studies who require a conceptual and analytical tool for a systematic accounting of the relationships between trade liberalization and biodiversity conservation.