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Foreign direct investment in Africa : performance, challenges and responsibilities
(2005-09)
This paper examines the performance, promotion, and prospects for foreign direct investment (FDI) in Africa. Factors such as political and macroeconomic instability, low growth, weak infrastructure, poor
governance, ...
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 ...
The effect of mode 4 liberalization on illegal immigration
(2007-02)
This paper aims to assess the impacts of the temporary movement of workers on the illegal immigration. It uses a discrete time, forward-looking model with heterogeneous agents, in order to describe the decision made by ...
Diversification : towards a new paradigm for Africa's development
(2006-05)
Africa’s recent development history could be summarized into two big periods. The first occurred in the first years of independence where African countries sought to support political independence by
strengthening their ...
Financing Economic Growth to Reduce Poverty by half in Africa in 2015 : Exploratory Analysis using Cross-Country Data
(2007-10)
This study explores the role of foreign aid to finance the required growth to reduce extreme poverty by half in 2015 in Africa. It profiles aid-flows into Africa by region, geography, institutions and levels of economic ...
The cost of non-maghreb achieving the gains from economic integration
(2006-11)
The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of the integration of Maghreb countries into a free trade area on the main macroeconomic aggregates. By using the MIRAGE model and Mac Map
database, we tested different ...
Trade preferences and Africa : the state of play and the issues at stake
(2005-03)
This paper deals with the contemporary situation regarding trade preferences and their implications for African development. It critically reviews the evidence on the effectiveness of the four most important schemes for ...
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 ...
DIVA, A CGE model for the study of African diversification
(2007-02)
Since their adoption by the Millennium Summit in September 2000, the Millennium
Development Goals (MDG) have constituted the new framework of policy formulation and
development strategies. The adoption of the MDGs has ...
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 ...