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 ...

January 1, 2007 marks the eleventh anniversary of the Tunisia-E.U. Free Trade Agreement (FTA). In its short life, this agreement has instigated major changes in the Tunisian economy and has significant consequences on ...

When the oil exporting countries steeply escalated the oil prices in October and December 1973, the action inevitably struck hardest at the poor, meaning the developing (and partly industrialized) countries that do not ...

The African Development Forum Meeting, convened by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in Addis Ababa in October 1999, considered the development of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) in Africa and ...

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 ...

Le document donne des précisions sur les coûts sous-jacents des activités de facilitation. «Etablir adéquatement les coûts de la facilitation des échanges» n’est pas uniquement crucial en ce qui concerne le besoin de ...

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 ...

The purpose of this study is to examine the establishment of sub-regional free trade areas in Africa in the context of the regional integration initiative as embodied in the Treaty establishing the AEC, in relation to the ...

The objective of the Seminar was to enhance knowledge on the Doha Development agenda and preparation for the forthcoming WTO Ministerial Conference with the main aim of strengthening the negotiating capacity of the Malavvian ...

The study deals with market access for merchandise goods (excluding petroleum/fuel oil), particularly those products that are of interest to African countries. In this respect,it consists of a brief description of the ...