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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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  The EU's responsiblity at the WTO: environment, gender and development

  Women in Development Europe, 2006

  This publication aims to contribute to a constructive dialogue between civil society representatives from the North and the South and representatives from the EU that could feed into an EU trade policy consistent with social and gender justice and environmental sustainability.
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  Environmental health and international trade: linkages and methodologies

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005

  This paper fleshes out the various linkages that exist between trade policy and environmental health. It is an analysis of the potential impact pathways by which trade policy might affect environmental health, based on a review of the literature and on the authors’ knowledge of trade-environment and assessment issues.
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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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  NAFTA's promise and reality: lessons from Mexico for the Hemisphere

  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003

  The report has two objectives: to determine how quality of life in Mexico has been affected by trade liberalisation in North America. It focuses on the microlevel of people and their communities, on changes in household income, paychecks, rural employment and agricultural production.
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  The impact of market liberalisation on the Lake Victoria fishery

  Network of Ugandan Researchers and Research Users, 2002

  This report analyses the effects of market liberalisation on the Lake Victoria fishery in Uganda, drawing on a review of secondary literature, a field survey, and statistical analysis. It attempts to establish the relationship between annual exploitable fish stocks, the amount of effort allocated to fishing activity in the area, and fish price changes during 1976-2002.
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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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  Trade liberalization in Chile: what is the evidence of its effects and how can sustainable development be safeguarded

  Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2004

  This paper explores the relations between trade liberalisation and sustainability with a special focus on the Chilean economy. By reviewing relevant literature, the paper assesses how trade liberalisation has affected environment and development in Chile.
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  Economic integration and the environment in El Salvador

  Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2004

  This paper examines the new environmental dynamics in el Salvador that resulted from shift from an agro-exporting economy to a remittance-driven urban based economy in the 1980s and 1990s.Main findings of the paper include:in the 1970s, rural environmental problems (deforestation, land degradation and pollution from agro-chemicals) were the most pressing issuescurrently, with increa

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