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A Decade (2000-2010) of African-US Trade under the African Growth Opportunities Act (AGOA): Challenges, Opportunities and a Framework for Post AGOA Engagement
(2010)
The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) has been part of the US international cooperation efforts for Africa since 2000. It entails a series of incentives provided to African countries by the US opening its market ...
Scaling up organic agriculture and enhancing its foreign market access: lessons learned from Eastern Africa
(2010)
This study examines the relationship between organic agriculture and food security in Africa, analyzing the impact of organic agriculture on food availability as well as on the natural, social, human, physical and financial ...
Financing Economic Growth to Reduce Poverty by half in Africa in 2015 : Exploratory Analysis using Cross-Country Data
(2007-10)
This study explores the role of foreign aid to finance the required growth to reduce extreme poverty by half in 2015 in Africa. It profiles aid-flows into Africa by region, geography, institutions and levels of economic ...
Mainstreaming trade into South Africa's National Development Strategy
(2007-01)
This paper focuses on the process and substance of trade policy in South Africa. It looks broadly at the role of trade policy in relation to the country’s growth and poverty reduction framework, nature and formulation of ...
Emerging Issues and Concerns of African Countries in the WTO Negotiations on Agriculture and the Doha Round
(2006-07)
Since the Uruguay Round, African countries have been concerned about the rules and operations of the multilateral trading system and are beginning to realize that they have to be active in the negotiation process to protect ...
Non - tariff barriers : their prevalence and relevance for African countries
(2005)
Meaningful market access requires a reduction in all kinds of barriers to trade. In this context, it is commonly argued that ‘core’ non-tariff barriers (NTBs) to trade fell considerably in the aftermath of the Uruguay Round ...
Global trade models and economic policy analyses : relevance, risks, and repercussions for Africa
(2006-12)
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 ...
Non-agricultural market access which modalities for a positive African agenda?
(2006-09)
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 ...