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Annual regional consultation of UN agencies working in Africa
(2001-10)
First, the core institutional mandate of the WTO, as a rules-based system, is trade liberalisation. Eliminating trade barriers significantly increases the medium to long-term trade development prospects of countries. Trade ...
Industrializing through trade: trade as a catalyst for Africa’s structural transformation
(2016)
The Economic Report on Africa 2015 builds on previous editions of the report that emphasized the need for developmental States and development plans to foster Africa’s structural transformation, benefiting from the continent’s ...
Siège de l' asssociation des organisations Africaines de promotion commerciale
(1975-03)
Ce document présente une note verbale de l’Ambassade royale du Maroc à Addis Abeba. L’Ambassade du Royaume du Maroc présente dans cette note ses compliments au Secrétariat exécutif de la Commission économique des Nations ...
African Trade Policy Centre: The Economic and Welfare Impacts of the EU-Africa Economic Partnership Agreements
(2005-05)
The Cotonou Partnership Agreement (CPA) between the European Union (EU) and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries is expected to succeed the expired Lomé Agreement. It envisages the signing of Economic Partnership ...
GATS: transport services
(2000-04)
The first proposals for the negotiations of a multilateral framework for trade in services were put forward in the early 1980s. Since then, it has been recognized that effective liberalization of trade in services would ...
General agreement on trade services (GATTS)
(1998-12)
In its present state, GATS has only limited disciplines on the liberalization of trade in services. There are many open questions in GATS that need to be addressed in future rounds. Long, medium and short-term solutions ...
L'intégration économique en Afrique et le système commercial multilatéral
(1997-11)
Le continent africain, fortement handicapé par ses mauvaises performances économiques de la décennie 80, la persistance de troubles politiques dans plusieurs sous-régions, les aléas climatiques, la pression démographique ...