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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This paper aims at analyzing the possible influence of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth in the particular case of Middle East and North African countries (MENA). During the last years, the relation between ...

The results presented indicate that a free trade area would reinforce the linkages between Ethiopia and European countries, including traditional partners such as Italy, with implications for the regional integration ...

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 ...

This paper is to examine the Nigerian trade policy and the trade policy formulation processes, and also to see how trade policy has been embedded in the mainstream of national development strategies.

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 ...