The issue of unrestricted market access for sub-Saharan Africa has featured lately in the debate on overcoming Africa’s development challenges through trade, rather than aid. This paper assesses empirically the impact of ...

L’objectif de cette étude est d’aider les pays africains à formuler des propositions concrètes dans le domaine de l’accès aux marchés pour les produits non-agricoles. Cette étude par conséquent a l'attention d'identifier ...

Ce rapport se fixe pour objectif de réfléchir sur la problématique de la diversification et d’en faire un nouveau cadre d’élaboration des stratégies de développement des économies africaines. Cet objectif est cohérent avec ...

Les performances commerciales de l’Afrique n’ont cessé de se détériorer durant les deux dernières décennies. Qu’il s’agisse de la place du continent dans les échanges mondiaux ou de la croissance des exportations africaines, ...

Address by Mr. Hakim Ben Hammouda, Director of Trade and Regional Integration Division (TRID), Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) at the Regional Workshop on Trade and Development. Mr. Hammouda, on his remarks highlighted ...

This paper argues that Africa did not benefit much from the Hong Kong World Trade Organization(WTO) ministerial meeting. After recalling Africa’s concerns and priorities in the Doha Round and critically looking at some of ...

The CPA has adopted the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) as the new framework for economic and trade cooperation. The primary aim of this cooperation is to contribute to the development of a trade regime that promotes ...

Computable general equilibrium (CGE) models are widely used for trade policy analyses and recommendations. Simulation results from these models have also been used as a basis for offering advice to African countries on ...

This paper proposes an extensive data simulation exercise on the likely impact of non-agricultural market access (NAMA) liberalization. We propose real options for various formula coefficients, Paragraph 8 flexibilities ...