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	<title>Global Development: Views from the Center » Trade</title>
	
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	<description>Global Development: Views from the Center features posts from Nancy Birdsall and her colleagues at the Center for Global Development about innovative, practical policy responses to poverty and inequality in an ever-more globalized world.</description>
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		<title>Why Does Cargo Spend Extra Weeks in Sub-Saharan African Ports?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/04/why-does-cargo-spend-extra-weeks-in-sub-saharan-african-ports.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijaya Ramachandran</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Trade]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8486</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Vijaya Ramachandran - A new  report from the World Bank asks a key question&#8211;why does cargo spend weeks in Sub-Saharan African ports—and comes up with some very thought-provoking ideas.  Authors Gael Raballand, Salim Refas, Monical Beuran and Gozde Isik, argue that the answer is NOT that the lack of port capacity. Examining six Sub-Saharan African ports—Tema (Ghana), Lome [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Squeezing Assad – Don’t Ditch Diplomacy Yet</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/03/squeezing-assad-%e2%80%93-don%e2%80%99t-ditch-diplomacy-yet.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/03/squeezing-assad-%e2%80%93-don%e2%80%99t-ditch-diplomacy-yet.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weak and Fragile States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Odious Debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8230</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Lawrence MacDonald - This post is joint with Jenny Ottenhoff As the violent crackdown on protesters in Syria intensifies, so does the international search for an effective response that stops short of military intervention. Meeting in Washington last week, U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron called on their governments and allies to ratchet up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prevention of Odious Obligations: A New Tool to Help Stem the Violence in Syria</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/03/prevention-of-odious-obligations-a-new-tool-to-help-stem-the-violence-in-syria.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/03/prevention-of-odious-obligations-a-new-tool-to-help-stem-the-violence-in-syria.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Ann Elliott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fragile States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Odious Debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8201</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kimberly Ann Elliott - Last week President Obama responded to the rising carnage in Syria by saying that he is looking for “every tool available to prevent the slaughter of innocents in Syria,” government-instigated violence that has already claimed thousands of lives. What new tools are available? The economic sanctions imposed are having an impact, but they are weakened [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Farm Bill Saga Begins (Again):  Will Development Be on the Stage, in the Wings, or out of Luck?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/02/the-farm-bill-saga-begins-again-will-development-be-on-the-stage-in-the-wings-or-out-of-luck.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/02/the-farm-bill-saga-begins-again-will-development-be-on-the-stage-in-the-wings-or-out-of-luck.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Ann Elliott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On the Hill]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8066</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kimberly Ann Elliott - Many in the development research and advocacy communities engaged heavily in the mid-2000s debate over what became the 2008 farm bill and were sorely disappointed with the outcome. At that time, the push for farm bill reform was part of a broader campaign to push the Doha Development Agenda round of international trade negotiations to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trading Up: Pakistan, the EU and Trade as Development</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/02/trading-up-pakistan-the-eu-and-trade-as-development.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/02/trading-up-pakistan-the-eu-and-trade-as-development.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Cutherell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8052</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Daniel Cutherell - “Better late than never” has never been truer. Recent reports (Financial Times, Reuters) indicate that the European Union (EU) is on the verge of reducing tariffs on a range of Pakistani exports for two to three years. The proposed reduction covers 75 products that make up between 27 and 37 percent of EU imports from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Surprises and No Momentum out of WTO Meeting</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/12/no-surprises-and-no-momentum-out-of-wto-meeting.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/12/no-surprises-and-no-momentum-out-of-wto-meeting.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Ann Elliott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doha Round]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WTO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=7766</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kimberly Ann Elliott - “Many Ministers expressed deep regret at the impasse currently facing the Doha Round. They nevertheless reaffirmed their commitment to delivering on the Doha mandate.” Closing statement of the WTO ministerial conference chair, December 17, 2011 So the zombie that began as the Doha Development Agenda in 2001 continues to loom over the international trade system: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Be or Not To Be? That Is the Question for the Doha Round Now</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/12/to-be-or-not-to-be-that-is-the-question-for-the-doha-round-now.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/12/to-be-or-not-to-be-that-is-the-question-for-the-doha-round-now.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Ann Elliott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doha Round]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=7740</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kimberly Ann Elliott - How many readers were even aware that a meeting of trade minsters is happening in Geneva later this week? How many care? Two years ago, I wrote a blog post about the 2009 ministerial meeting headlined “to blog or not to blog…” because nothing was expected to happen, and nothing did. This year, I’m reverting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bit of Context on the Fair Trade Kerfuffle</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/12/a-bit-of-context-on-the-fair-trade-kerfuffle.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/12/a-bit-of-context-on-the-fair-trade-kerfuffle.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Ann Elliott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trade]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=7709</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kimberly Ann Elliott - There has been a flurry of media attention to the pending break-up between the main US certifier of fair trade coffee, Fair Trade USA, and the international umbrella organization, the Fairtrade Labeling Organization (FLO). The two organizations issued a joint press release in September, announcing that Fair Trade USA would go its own way as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Budget Supercommittee: Secret Savior for Farm Subsidies?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/11/budget-supercommittee-secret-savior-for-farm-subsidies.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/11/budget-supercommittee-secret-savior-for-farm-subsidies.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Ann Elliott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trade]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=7578</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kimberly Ann Elliott - I think few of us involved in the 2008 farm bill process would have thought the new farm bill&#160;could be even worse, but the agricultural committees seem to have found a way to hijack the supercommittee process to their own ends. If this article is correct, the ag committees are trying to slip one by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pass the Trade Agreements Already! (And Then Do Something Better!)</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/10/pass-the-trade-agreements-already-and-then-do-something-better.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/10/pass-the-trade-agreements-already-and-then-do-something-better.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Ann Elliott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bilateral trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trade agreements]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=7341</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kimberly Ann Elliott - After years of delay, three U.S. trade agreements are finally down to the wire. President Obama has sent Congress legislation to implement long-delayed free trade agreements with Colombia, Korea, and Panama. Congress is expected to vote on all three agreements, and an extension of the Trade Adjustment Assistance program for workers displaced due to trade, [...]]]></description>
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