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'Trade liberalisation - the lowering of restrictions on goods for import and export - is increasingly being taken up across the world because of its association with high economic growth. With a specific focus on Africa, this paper notes that, within the context of trade liberalisation, women can be both winners and losers. They may benefit - for example through greater access to paid employment opportunities in manufacturing of garments and other goods. Yet they are not able to seize the opport more...
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'Europe is negotiating new trade deals with African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries. A true partnership in trade could radically transform the lives of one-third of all people living in poverty, providing farmers and small businesses with sustainable incomes and workers with decent jobs. But Europe is choosing power politics over partnership. The deals currently on the table will strip ACP countries of important policy tools they need in order to develop. They will fracture regional inte more...
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'When trade ministers from 35 countries gather in Geneva at the World Trade Organization [WTO] for what is being billed yet again as a last-ditch attempt to forge a Doha trade deal, they will be forced to meet an unwelcome guest: the 2008 US Farm Bill. With a host of newly bolstered subsidies that will hurt farmers in developing countries, as well as higher farm payment rates, squeezing the new Farm Bill into the ‘boxes’ defined under existing WTO obligations will be a remarkable trick. That more...
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Abstract: 'The South is becoming a major player in world industry and trade. Since the 1980s, its share in world manufacturing added has almost doubled; its share in world exports has more than doubled, and South-South trade is rapidly increasing. The rise of the South stimulates South- South cooperation in a number of ways: Through regional groupings, through the activities of the Group of 77, and through direct economic interaction in the form of South-South trade, investment and technology tr more...
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'In international trade, Zambia is a one-product economy. Copper accounts for some 70% of its exports, and prices have collapsed. If they stay at their current level, exports will halve in 2009. The most immediate social impact has been the loss of some 5,000 out of a total of some 30,000 mining jobs.
Based the author’s interviews with a number of international donors, government officials, economists, and civil society organizations in Lusaka this paper documents impacts on Zambia’s tra more...
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ADBI Dean Masahiro Kawai gave the welcome remarks at the conference on the Global Financial Crisis: Europe in Crisis? Lessons for Asia and from Japan. The conference, jointly organized by ADBI and Japan’s Policy Research Institute, was held at ADBI, Tokyo on 17 June 2009.
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Every day, governments around the world give authorisation for the export and transfer of weapons. These decisions affect the lives of millions of people. In some cases, these arms transfers undermine development, by fuelling conflict and armed violence, threatening peace-building efforts, or when they involve excessive unaccountable spending. Such spending can divert vital funds from public services such as education and health care, and when such spending takes place without accountability and more...
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