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Unrestricted market access for sub-Saharan Africa: important benefits with little cost to the QUAD
(2005-03)
The issue of unrestricted market access for sub-Saharan Africa has featured lately in the debate on overcoming Africa’s development challenges through trade, rather than aid. This paper assesses empirically the impact of ...
La diversification, vers un Nouveau paradigme pour le développement de l'Afrique
(2006-06)
Ce rapport se fixe pour objectif de réfléchir sur la problématique de la diversification et d’en faire un nouveau cadre d’élaboration des stratégies de développement des économies africaines. Cet objectif est cohérent avec ...
L'acces aux marches peut-il aider l'agriculture africaine?
(2005-11)
La question de l’accès aux marchés revêt un caractère crucial pour l’Afrique. Depuis l’avènement de l’OMC et le rôle de plus en plus dynamique qu’ils y jouent, les pays africains n’ont cessé de mettre l’accent sur cette ...
Pourquoi l'Afrique s'estelle marginalisée dans le commerce international?
(2005-05)
Les performances commerciales de l’Afrique n’ont cessé de se détériorer durant les deux dernières décennies. Qu’il s’agisse de la place du continent dans les échanges mondiaux ou de la croissance des exportations africaines, ...
Regional Workshop on Trade and Development: Address By Mr. Hakim Ben Hammouda, Director of Trade and Regional Integration Division (TRID), Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
(2004-11)
Address by Mr. Hakim Ben Hammouda, Director of Trade and Regional Integration Division (TRID), Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) at the Regional Workshop on Trade and Development. Mr. Hammouda, on his remarks highlighted ...
Did Africa benefit in Hong Kong ?
(2006-07)
This paper argues that Africa did not benefit much from the Hong Kong World Trade Organization(WTO) ministerial meeting. After recalling Africa’s concerns and priorities in the Doha Round and critically looking at some of ...
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 ...
Agricultural trade liberalization and poverty in Tunisia: macro-simulation in a general equilibrium framework
(2007-09)
Regarding trade cooperation, there was a need for the ACP-EU arrangements to be compatible with
the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) rules. Indeed, the ACP-EU non-reciprocal preferential trade
arrangement departs from ...
Financing development in Africa : trends, issues and challenges
(2006-12)
The reduction and eventual eradication of poverty, hunger, and starvation in Africa is one of the main challenges facing African leaders and the international community. According to the March 2005 report of the Commission ...
Assessing the Consequences of the Economic Partnership Agreement on the Economy of Sudan
(2007-09)
The CPA has adopted the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) as the new framework for economic and trade cooperation. The primary aim of this cooperation is to contribute to the development of a trade regime that promotes ...