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 ...

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 ...

In this paper, an attempt is made to assess whether Africa is likely to benefit from the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) non-agricultural market access (NAMA) negotiations. We propose a comparison between the African Trade ...

The Trade, Finance and Economic Development (TFED) of the Economic Commission for Africa is in the process of developing a global econometric model for Africa. This model could be used for forecasting major macroeconomic ...

The trade and finance problems of Africa have been extensively examined from both theoretical and empirical angles. In this survey, an attempt is made to locate these problems within a global economy context. This is ...