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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 ...
Multilateral agricultural liberalization : what's in it for Afica?
(2006-07)
This paper examines the implications for African economies of the possible outcomes from the ongoing agriculture negotiations in the Doha Round. The paper defines scenarios that capture key elements of the modalities ...
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 ...
Non-Agricultural Market Access (NAMA) Negotiations in WTO: Modalities for a positive post Hong Kong African agenda
(2006-03)
In this paper, an attempt is made to assess whether Africa is likely to benefit from the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) non-agricultural market access (NAMA) negotiations. We propose a comparison between the African Trade ...
Trade and Growth in Africa: The Theoretical Framework of the TFED/ ECA Global Macroeconometric Model
(2007-02)
The Trade, Finance and Economic Development (TFED) of the Economic Commission for Africa is in the process of developing a global econometric model for Africa. This model could be used for forecasting major macroeconomic ...
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 ...