Download or read book Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and African Caribbean and Pacific Countries What Is at Stake for Senegal written by Valdete Berisha-Krasniqi, Antoine Bouët, and Simon Mevel and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2008 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Partnership Agreements Between the European Union and African Caribbean and Pacific Countries written by Valdete Berisha-Krasniqi and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the European Union has sought to transform its trading regime with the ACP countries by advocating reciprocal free trade agreements with them through Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). As a result, the EPA talks were launched in 2002 and were expected be completed by the end of 2007. Nevertheless, many African countries, including Senegal did not reach agreements with the European Union in 2007 amid rising concerns that such agreements do not represent the interests of developing countries. This policy shift from preferential trade to free trade would imply drastic changes for Senegal's economy, which currently enjoys relatively good access to European market (but also to the U.S. through the African Growth Opportunity Act) while applying a high domestic protection on all sources of imports. As a result, this type of reform would result in improved access to foreign markets only for the EU. Furthermore, the EPA implies a loss of tariff revenues from liberalization, which has been a key concern for ACP countries from the beginning of talks because they constitute a high level of public receipts there. Finally this kind of reform could lead to trade diversion in Senegal while creating not enough trade. Using the MIRAGE computable general equilibrium model the study examines the potential impact of Economic Partnership Agreements on ACP countries with a special focus on Senegal.
Download or read book The European Union West Africa Economic Partnership Agreement written by Bouët, Antoine and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite recent modifications, the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union (EU) and West African (WA) countries is still being criticized for its potential detrimental effects on WA countries. This paper provides updated evidence on the impact of the EPA on these countries. A dynamic multicountry, multisector computable general equilibrium trade model with modeling of the dual-dual economy and with a consistent tariff aggregator is used to simulate a series of new scenarios that include updated information on the agreement. We also go beyond estimating macrolevel economic effects to analyze the impacts on poverty. The policy simulation results show that the implementation of the EPA between the EU and WA countries would have marginal but positive impacts on Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire and negative impacts on Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, and Togo. The impact on poverty indicators in Ghana and Nigeria would be marginal. From the perspective of WA countries, this study supports the view that recent EU concessions are not sufficient and that domestic fiscal reforms are needed in WA countries themselves.
Download or read book Economic Partnership Agreements EPAs written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brochure includes 38 testimonials compiled by European Union Delegations in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries with local stakeholders and policy-makers in 2009. EPAs are trade and development partnerships being negotiated between the EU and the 78 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries (+ South Africa) and regions. They aim at creating a shared trade and development partnership backed up by development support which will, through gradual and controlled liberalisation of trade in goods over a reasonable period of time, and a set of rules on sectors such as services and investment, contribute to development, growth and job creation.
Download or read book Partnership or Power Play How Europe should bring development into its trade deals with African Caribbean and Pacific countries written by Emily Jones and published by Oxfam. This book was released on with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trade Policy Between European Union and African Caribbean and Pacific ACP Countries written by Kerstin Bertow and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cotonou Agreement written by Boniface Macharia Kinyanjui and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2001-06-06 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: This masters thesis discusses the recently concluded treaty between the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries on the one hand and the European Union (EU) on the other. This Agreement having signed in Cotonou, Benin, is known as the Cotonou Agreement. The Cotonou Agreement is the latest in a series of conventions between the two parties that have their genesis in the late 1950s. The primary goal of this work was to find out to what extent, if at all, the newly signed Agreement is likely to contribute to the economic renaissance of the ACP countries. In so doing it traces development of the ACP-EU conventions right from their very beginning. The performance of the relationship to date is examined with a view to determining whether the lessons learnt therefrom have been incorporated in the new Agreement. There is a detailed analysis of the trade and aid provisions of the Cotonou Agreement. Apart from the economic provisions, other major provisions and developments of the ACP-EU Conventions are discussed with a view to providing a wholesome picture. Inhaltsverzeichnis:Table of Contents: Abbreviationsiv Table oftreatiesvi Table ofcasesviii 1.Introduction1 2.Historical antecedents of the Cotonou Agreement3 2.1The early associational arrangements3 2.1.1Overseas Countries and Territories3 2.1.2Yaounde I6 2.1.3Yaounde II7 2.1.4The Lagos and Arusha Conventions8 2.2The Lome Conventions9 2.2.1Lome I9 2.2.2Lome II12 2.2.3Lome III13 2.2.4Lome IV14 2.2.5RevisedLome IV16 2.3Evaluation of the economic impact of the Lome Conventions to date19 2.3.1Introduction20 2.3.2Extra Lome Convention constraints22 2.3.3Lome Convention constraints23 3.The GreenPaper27 4.The Cotonou Agreement29 4.1Introduction29 4.2The novel commercial framework32 4.2.1Trade Preferences32 4.2.1.1Non-reciprocal trade preferences33 4.2.1.2Conformity with WTO rules37 4.2.2New trade agreements43 4.2.3Regional integration46 4.2.4Rules of origin50 4.2.5The commodity protocols52 4.2.6Trade in services and trade related areas53 4.3Financial co-operation55 4.3.1Development finance co-operation55 4.3.2STABEX / SYSMIN57 4.3.3ACP countries debt59 4.3.4Private sector support60 5.Conclusion62 Bibliography66
Download or read book Did you say free trade written by Jacques Berthelot and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The headlong rush of the European Union (EU) in Free Trade Agreements reaches the paroxysm of absurdity when it imposes them on West Africa, whose per capita GDP is 21 times lower than its own. This Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) would make West Africa lose 76% of its customs revenue on its imports from the EU and lead to a sharp rise in unemployment due to the loss of competitiveness of its companies including the informal sectors.The latter will be worsened by the premature signing, with support from the EU, of the Continental Free Trade Area by 13 of 16 West African States, all this based on a number of untruths from the European Commission, as identified in this book.
Download or read book Trade Poverty and The Environment written by Adrian Flint and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2000 the European Union and its 78 African-Caribbean-Pacific partners signed the Cotonou Agreement, heralding a new era in developmental politics. This comprehensive book draws attention to the limitations in the EU's approach to implementing pro-poor, environmentally sustainable development amongst its African-Caribbean-Pacific partners.
Download or read book The European Union Relationship to the Africa Caribbean and Pacific Countries in Terms of the Cotonou Agreements written by Jinxiang Li and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main purpose of this paper was to explore the role economic partnership agreements play in regional integration. The whole paper was premised on identifying the nature of economic partnership agreements that is conceived as a free trade arrangement. Therefore the paper discussed the feasibility of the reciprocal principle between the European Union and ACP countries, and further indicated that there is no need to implement the principle of reciprocity at present. The paper also discovered that, due to the fact that unequal trade relations between the EU and the ACP countries still exist, the implementation of the EPAs is most likely to generate the complementary but non-competitive trade relations between the EU and the ACP countries. Such a situation could result in the ACP countries over-independence on the EU's market. ACP countries are not expecting to such integration. In addition the paper ascertains that the EPAs themselves could contain the intrinsic negative impacts such as discrimination against the third countries on regional integration.
Download or read book The Economic Partnership Agreements and Market Power Europe written by Jessica Raquel Bermudez and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Explaining the Outcomes of Negotiations of Economic Partnership Agreements Between the European Union and the African Caribbean and Pacific Regional Economic Communities written by James Nyomakwa-Obimpeh and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The European Union Economic Partnership Agreements with Sub Saharan Africa written by Alice N. Sindzingre and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper analyses the impacts of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific) countries and those of the EU (European Union) in the specific case of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In order to comply with WTO (World Trade Organisation) requirements, the EPAs shift the trade preferences previously enjoyed by the ACP countries to a free trade regime between the EU and regional groupings of ACP countries. EPAs were supposed to fully enter into force at the end of 2007, but many ACP SSA countries have not been ready or have been reluctant to implement them at that date. EPAs are examined in their different contexts, in particular the theoretical underpinnings of trade liberalisation and regionalism respectively, as well as the increasing number of regional arrangements aiming at 'deep' regional integration in all parts of the world, which ensued from the disappointment with multilateralism of many developed and developing countries. EPAs are then investigated in the specific context of SSA, i.e. that of a distorted trade structure, an excessive dependence on commodity exports, fragile industrial bases, as well as by a disputed effectiveness of its many intra-SSA regional agreements. EPAs co-exist with other North-South preferential trade agreements, in particular the EU GSP (Generalised System of Preferences), including the EBA (Everything But Arms) initiative, and the US AGOA (African Growth and Opportunity Act). It is shown that EPAs will have very different outcomes depending on countries and their particular initial conditions, economic structures and regional context. It is also revealed that these outcomes depend on many variables: global factors, international prices, domestic market structures, trade policies conducted by the EU, the governments and various trade agreements to which they belong. EPA outcomes are therefore uncertain and can be assessed only on a case by case basis, at the level of countries, sectors and products. In addition, many impact assessments rely on simulations, which cannot be considered as 'hard facts'. EPAs may have beneficial effects on SSA countries and enhance their exports and competiveness. They may constitute a mode of integration that is more efficient than multilateral liberalisation, and in fine may be a more manageable step towards multilateralisation, especially in poor countries. However, EPAs exhibit several risks, e.g. diverting trade, augmenting the complexity of the already complex 'spaghetti bowl' of trade arrangements, creating fiscal losses in countries that suffer from narrow fiscal bases and rely on trade taxes, eroding the existing industrial bases - which are fragile, threatened by more competitive developing countries, especially China, and often depend on the previous EU unilateral preferences - and benefiting EU firms more than those of SSA. EPAs have the ambition to foster trade, improve regional relationships, deepen north-south integration and enhance development. These are numerous objectives, and moreover countries may strongly differ: they can be reached if EPAs help countries to reinforce their capacity to conduct their policies - the 'policy space' - control the effects of trade diversion and displacements of industrial activities that often accompany free trade agreements, and strengthen their industrial sectors, as high-growth Asian countries.
Download or read book A Matter of Political Will written by Emily Jones and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Partnership Agreements written by Wallie Roux and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Scramble for African Trade written by Gurjit Singh and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Union has initiated a new set of 'Economic Partnership Agreements' (EPAs) with six sections of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries and four of these groups are African. Besides the Caribbean and Pacific regions, negotiations are held with West Africa, East and Southern Africa, Central Africa and Southern Africa to take into account divergent membership of regional economic communities (RECs).
Download or read book The Interim Economic Partnership Agreements between the EU and African States contents challenges and prospects written by European Centre for Development Policy Management and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
