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An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN

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  1. The next decade of EU trade policy: confronting global challenges?

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 25 July 2012
    On 27 January 2012, the European Commission (EC) published a Communication ‘Trade, Growth and Development: Tailoring trade and investment policy for those countries most in need’. This report brings together 18 essays from the world’s leading trade and development experts to discuss the main issues covered.
  2. Regional analysis of Eastern province feeder road project district level estimation of the poverty alleviation effects of rural roads improvements in Zambia’s Eastern province

    Publication - Discussion papers - 1 July 2012
    Working paper 10/2012
    This paper provides an impact evaluation of poor rural area feeder road (aid for trade) development project in Zambia and contributes to the debate about the role of rural transport infrastructure development in explaining long-term rural development.
  3. Stimulating Europe

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 18 June 2012
    'Strategies to overcome the European crisis only focused on collective austerity are not working; they are bad arithmetic, worse economics and ignore the lessons of history.'
  4. The governance of global value chains and the effects of the global financial crisis transmitted to producers in Africa and Asia

    Publication - Journal articles or issues - 11 June 2012
    This article uses a global value chain (GVC) approach to trace the effects of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) transmitted to low income producers in Africa and Asia through trade. It explores how the governance structures associated with different types of GVC determined producers' vulnerability to the exogenous trade shock of 2008.
  5. How can Europe make the Common Agricultural Policy coherent with development?

    Publication - Articles and blogs - 4 June 2012
    Bridges Africa Review Volume 1, issue 2
    Nicola Cantore, Sheila Page and Dirk Willem te Velde
    This article discusses the proposed reforms to the Common Agricultural Policy and asks three questions: How do the present CAP and the proposed reforms affect development? Is the CAP a good instrument for achieving its declared goals of supporting and stabilising rural income and protecting the environment? Is the goal of stabilising agricultural prices and incomes within the EU compatible with coherence for development?

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