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Economic and welfare impacts of the EU-Africa economic partnership agreements
(2005-03)
Th e Cotonou Partnership Agreement (CPA) between the European Union (EU) and African, Caribbean and Pacifi c (ACP) countries is expected to succeed the expired Lomé Agreement. It envisages the signing of Economic Partnership ...
Évaluation de l'impact de l'accord de partenariat économique entre les pays de la CEMAC et l'Union Européenne
(2004-09)
La présente étude est composée de quatre parties. Dans un premier temps, sont exposés les enjeux des négociations sur les APE pour la COMESA (1). Après avoir présenté l’approche méthodologique retenue
pour quantifi er ...
Assessment of the impact of the economic partnership agreement between the COMESA countries and the European union
(2006-11)
The purpose of this study, is to evaluate possible economic repercussions of the trade facet, in Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), currently being negotiated between countries of the Common Market in Eastern and ...
Macroeconomic policy space and African economies : an empirical sitting through reality and rhetoric
(2007-11)
African countries are faced with the challenge of reducing poverty rates by half on or before the year 2015. This calls for high and sustained economic growth rates. Scaling up of aid to create fiscal space is seen as one ...
Assessing the consequences of the economic partnership agreement on the Rwandan economy
(2005-03)
This paper quantifi es the potential economic and welfare impacts of the Economic Partnership Agreement currently being negotiated between the European Union and the ACP countries, on the Rwandan economy. The paper analyses ...
Why Doesn't Regional Integration: Improve Income Convergence in Africa?
(2007-11)
This paper investigates why regional integration does not improve income convergence in Africa, despite the common goal of more open and freer trade. Based on empirical analysis using African countries data, the paper ...
Interim economic partnership agreements point to the classic regional trade agreements after all : should African countries really be worried
(2009-04)
In a departure from some previous studies on the EPAs negotiations that have focused on economic
analysis; this paper starts from the premise that for the EU, the EPAs are international trade policy tools
in the same ...
Towards the African template for economic partnership agreements : Explanation and Recommendations
(2008-11)
This effort towards an African EPA template is meant and designed to assist the African Union member states in their negotiation of economic partnership agreements with the European Commission. It is produced as requested ...
Évaluation de l'impact de l'accord de partenariat économique entre les pays de la CEMAC et l'Union Européenne
(2004-12)
L’Afrique centrale, comme entité regroupant des pays membres des ACP et de l’OMC, est engagée dans deux processus de négociations commerciales majeurs, l’un multilatéral à l’OMC et l’autre dans le cadre des accords de ...
Global Macroeconomic Models and African Trade and Finance: A Survey of the Literature
(2007-01)
The trade and finance problems of Africa have been extensively examined from both theoretical and empirical angles. In this survey, an attempt is made to locate these problems within a global economy context. This is ...