This article examines the issue of trade reforms confronting many African Caribbean and Pacific countries such as Fiji, which are set to lose their European Union sugar price subsidy at the end of 2007. It was found that attempts to offset the adverse impacts of the subsidy removal by targeting...

The loss of EU sugar preferences at the end of 2007 has made the push for reform more urgent than ever in the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. Fiji as a case study is useful to understand the difficulties faced in being competitive in the global market without the sugar subsidy....

This paper draws attention to an aspect of poverty reduction in rapidly developing economies that have enjoyed a sustained period of economic growth accompanied by a decline in absolute poverty. The paper sets out to show the following: First, growth that leaves income distribution unchanged...