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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.