Economic Partnership Agreements
Economic Partnership Agreements and Food Security
... Abstract There has been much debate about the possible negative effects of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) for food security in ACP signatories. This paper investigates whether the commitments ...
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Horse-trading on EU-African Economic Partnership Agreements
... Abstract: EU- Africa Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are on the brink. In July 2014 the Head of States of ECOWAS endorsed the negotiated compromise EPA after prolonged negotiations. However, ...
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The institutional challenge of the ACP/EU Economic Partnership Agreements
... The Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of countries, signed in Cotonou in September 2000, established a ...
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Horse trading? EU African Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs)
... Abstract: EU- Africa Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are on the brink. In July 2014 the Head of States of ECOWAS endorsed the negotiated compromise EPA after prolonged negotiations. However, ...
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Horse trading? EU-African Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs)
... Abstract: EU- Africa Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are on the brink. In February 2014 West African leaders agreed in principle to conclude an agreement. However, last-minute objections of ...
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EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS ON AGRICULTURAL TRADE BETWEEN NIGERIA AND THE EU
... on-going Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) negotiations between Nigeria and the EU need to be concluded and implemented based on the research findings, but measures should be taken to protect ...
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Economic Partnership Agreements, Regional Integration in Sub Saharan Africa and AGOA
... The Cotonou Agreement announced the transition to a new trade arrangement between the ACP group and the EU. Reciprocal FTAs (labelled Economic Partnership Agreements or EPAs) with subgroups of ACP ...
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Economic Partnership Agreements: Assessing Potential Implications from Some Alternative Scenarios
... EPA Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are supposed to bring in significant trade and development shifts for the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries through symmetric trading ...
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The Impact of Economic Partnership Agreements on African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries Imports and Welfare
... Abstract – This paper estimates the impact on a sample of 34 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries of eliminating tariffs on imports from the EU under Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), ...
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Economic Partnership Agreements: Redesigning trade and development among EU and ACP Countries
... the Economic Partnership Agreements shall aim notably at establishing the timetable for the progressive removal of barriers to trade between the Parties, in accordance with the relevant WTO ...socio- ...
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Negotiating Economic Partnership Agreements: Agriculture
... In addition to the difference in status between LDCs and non-LDCs, which is a key factor, other factors may cause the interests of ACP countries to differ. For instance, the very different place which agriculture occu- ...
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Searching for an alternative to economic partnership agreements:
... aims at providing gains in market access for non-EPA coun- tries, thus making the scenario acceptable to them. The second one, called “MULTIPLUS,” is a scenario in which ACP countries undertake multilateral ...
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Economic and Welfare Impacts of the EU-Africa Economic Partnership Agreements
... Cotonou Partnership Agreement also Scenario 2 – Deeper regional integration without reciprocity: Scenario 2 – Deeper regional integration without reciprocity: hopes to achieve deeper integration in participating ...
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Economic and Welfare Impacts of the EU Africa Economic Partnership Agreements
... Cotonou Partnership Agreement also Scenario 2 – Deeper regional integration without reciprocity: Scenario 2 – Deeper regional integration without reciprocity: hopes to achieve deeper integration in participating ...
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Economic and Welfare Impacts of the EU-Africa Economic Partnership Agreements
... Cotonou Partnership Agreement also Scenario 2 – Deeper regional integration without reciprocity: Scenario 2 – Deeper regional integration without reciprocity: hopes to achieve deeper integration in participating ...
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EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements and ACP Integration
... EPA agreements have concentrated on the welfare and revenue effects, in particular those arising from the requirement of the ACP countries to eliminate (within a maximum of about 23 years) tariffs on substantially ...
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Preparing for Economic Partnership Agreements. Trade Analysis Handbook
... example, economic inefficiency from the diversion of imports to EU sources and away from more efficient countries outside the EPA is less likely to occur in the case of products for which Europe is an ...
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Monitoring economic partnership agreements : inputs to the negotiations and beyond
... trade agreements with a traditional focus on eliminating duties and quotas on, substantially, all trade between the ...and economic condi- tions to foster sustainable development of ACP ...
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The Impact of Economic Partnership Agreements on ACP Agriculture Imports and Welfare
... In principle, EPAs offer potential benefits to ACP countries beyond what was available under Lomé conventions. The preferential access to the EU is less restrictive: all ACP countries should have tariff-free access to ...
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Economic Partnership Agreements and the Complex Framework of Regional Integration in Africa
... Second, the analysis of the regulatory framework of the EU-ACP relations shows that the general development policy of the Union is restricted by a narrow legal framework while the goals it sets are too declarative, and ...
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