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 ...

Private sector participation in infrastructure has become more common in the last 15 years or so. Initially, the expansion of private sector involvement was driven by constrained budgets and concerns about efficient ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...