Designing Conflict-Sensitive Trade Policy

Designing Conflict-Sensitive Trade Policy

Report for International Institute for Sustainable Development, in Oli Brown (ed), Trade, Aid and Security: An Agenda for Peace and Development, Earthscan, 2007

This analysis argues that OECD countries are completely failing to design their trade policies to take conflict into account, and makes recommendations on how they should.

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Trade Invaders: The WTO and Developing Countries ‘Right to Protect’

Trade Invaders: The WTO and Developing Countries ‘Right to Protect’

Report for ActionAid (December 2005)

This report shows how developed countries are pushing trade liberalisation on developing countries at the World Trade Organisation, especially in the negotiations on services, agriculture and manufactured goods. Rather, developing countries need trade agreements to provide greater ‘policy space’ to pursue strategies in their own interests.

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Seventeen Ways the European Commission is Pushing Trade Liberalization on Poor Countries

Seventeen Ways the European Commission is Pushing Trade Liberalization on Poor Countries

Report for the European Trade Justice Movement (November 2005)

This report, written to support public campaigning in Europe, documents the numerous ways in which the European Commission is pushing developing countries to further open their economies to Western corporations.

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