scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic …-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development … programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa …

agricultural production and trade expansion. This paper cannot answer the question whether the present multilateral rules framework … completed, and it shows where the ‘development promises' of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World … Trade Organization (WTO) remain unfulfilled. Based on the experiences with the Uruguay Round, it argues that even the …

of their domestic policies. Developed countries such as the United States and the European Union (EU) resort to trade … production, and thus distort prices in the world market. The distorting effects of international trade can be distinguished …

developing members do not have any trade instrument under the WTO to address it except by increasing the applied tariff to bound …

prominent providers of trade distorting support to agriculture sector. USA is giving huge support to farmers under various …

suggest moving to free global merchandise trade would boost real incomes in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia (and in …This paper examines the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral trade … current trade barriers and agricultural subsidies, and then of possible outcomes from the WTO's Doha round. The results …

treatment (S&DT) for themselves, along with a substantial reduction in the trade-distorting support entitlement of developed … determine an overall trade-distorting support (OTDS) limit. In this context, this study quantifies and critically examines the … implications of various proposals on the policy space to provide trade-distorting support based on floating and fixed reference …

in Africa from a legal and institutional perspective. How can WIPO contribute to agricultural innovation and PVP in a way … Rights of Local Communities, Farmers and Breeders and for the Regulation of Access to Biological Resources), the Africa …

Global trade patterns are changing rapidly. Emerging economies are increasing their share of exports overall and … Union (EU) world market shares at the aggregate and sectoral level. It further points towards the changing patterns of trade …