Title:

Costs and Benefits of Alternative Regional Negotiating Strategies in the Caribbean

Status:

Completed September 2000

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Summary:

Contents:

Contextual Issues

Conceptual Framework

Empirical Assessment of the Costs and Benefits of Reciprocity with the EU

Alternative Trade Policy Scenarios: Estimates of Relative Costs and Benefits

Extending the Assessment of Costs and Benefits of Alternative Scenarios

Implementation Issues

Emerging Policy Issues

Conclusions

Appendices

References

Executive Summary

2.        

Author:

RNM/DFID project, Prof. Chris Stevens

Title:

A Conceptual Framework for a Sui Generis Trade Agreement that serves ACP needs in the 21^st century

Status:

Completed September 2000

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Summary:

Contents:

Executive Summary

1.         Why Create a Sui Generis Agreement?

2.         ACP Objectives in a Post-Lomé Accord  

3.         Does an off-the-peg model exist?

4.         The Building Blocks

5.         Non-Protocol Merchandise Trade: the Structure of the GSP

6.         Non-Protocol Merchandise Trade: the Level of GSP Preferences   

7.         New Trade Preferences  

8.         The Way Ahead

References

3.        

Author:

IDB/DFID funded project, Dr. Luis Abugattas

Title:

WTO and FTAA Services Trade Negotiations and Challenges for Developing Countries, with special reference to CARICOM

Status:

Completed, November 2000

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4.        

Author:

IDB/DFID funded project, Lynette Ifill; Aubrey Garcia

Title:

The Movement of Natural Persons:  CARICOM Strategy for Services Development and International Trade Negotiations

Status:

Completed November 2000

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Summary:

Contents:

Executive summary       

1                     Introduction

2                     The general agreement on trade in services

3          Movement of natural persons under the gats

4          GATS mode 4 commitments      

5          CARICOM commitments under the gats

6          Intra-CARICOM commitments

7          Other agreements

8          Economic benefits and costs of mode 4 for developing countries

9          Mode 4 related proposals

10         CARICOM strategy for movement of natural persons        

10.7            Conclusion

5.        

Author:

IDB/DFID funded project, Dr. Ramesh Chaitoo

Title:

The E-Commerce Potential for Caribbean Development and International Trade

Status:

Completed, November 2000

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Summary:

Contents:

Executive Summary

Global Developments in Electronic Commerce     

Relevance of E-Commerce to the Caribbean        

Development Imperatives for Caribbean E-Commerce

Negotiation Issues Regarding E-Commerce

Conclusions and Recommendations

Annex 1 — Value chain in the Internet economy  

Annex 2 — Fundamental principles: the view from international business   

Annex 3 — WTO findings and conclusions

Glossary of Technical Terms

References

List of Contact Persons 

6.        

Author:

IDB/DFID funded project, Patrick Antoine

Title:

Priority Issues for CARIFORUM Countries in the Upcoming WTO Negotiations

Status:

Completed, March 1999.

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7.        

Author:

RNM, Anthony Gonzales

Title:

Policy Implications of Smallness as a factor in the Lomé, FTAA and WTO Negotiations

Status:

Completed, September 2000.

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Summary:

Contents:

Examination of the major issues and findings

Assessment of the effectiveness of existing and proposed S&D measures for small economies in international trading arrangements     

An integrated policy framework of external assistance for the integration of small states into the multilateral trading system

Conclusions and recommendations

8.        

Author:

RNM, Earle Baccus

Title:

Market Survey for Organic  Foods  from  CARICOM  Countries in  selected European Countries (United Kingdom, France and Germany)

Status:

Completed, December 2000

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9.        

Author:

RNM, Allison Demas; Dr. Ralph Henry

Title:

Entertainment Services with special reference to Mas, Music and the Film and Video Segments

Status:

Draft, April 2001

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Summary:

Contents:

Intellectual Property Rights

Commercial Production 

English Speaking Metropole and the Caribbean Presence

Folk and the Entertainment Infrastructure

What is Copyright?

What are Related Rights

Where Are We With the WTO Agenda?  

Appendices – List of Tables

10.        

Author:

RNM, Alick Lazare

Title:

RNM/OECS Country Studies to inform Trade Negotiations

Status:

Draft, April 2001

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Summary:

11.        

Author:

Title:

Trade and Economic Relations between CARICOM and the Central American Common Market

Status:

Draft pending

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Contents:

12.        

Author:

CARICOM Secretariat

Title:

Caribbean Trade and Investment Report 2000 – Dynamic Interface of Regionalism and Globalisation

Status:

Concluded 2000

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Summary:

Contents:

Economic performance and integration policy

Intra and extra regional trade relations

Foreign investments trends

Retrospect and prospect