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 Beyond Market Access for Economic Development written by Gerrit Faber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-17 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and the Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries have drastically restructured Europe’s trade architecture towards the third world. This volume examines the consequences of EPAs for development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Starting from the observation that the establishment of free trade as such will substantially impact upon economic development, the different contributions focus on the potential contribution of non-traditional aspects of EPAs. More specifically, the authors analyze the role of Aid for Trade schemes, regulatory integration issues and broader foreign policy considerations. How can these non-market access aspects stimulate development in Africa, and how have they been addressed in the EPAs? In short, this brings us to the question whether the ‘light version EPAs’ as they currently stand are a missed chance or a blessing in disguise?
Download or read book Trade and Investment Agreements African Caribbean and Pacific Group of States ACP Trade and Investment Agreements Handbook Strategic Information and Basic Agreements written by IBP, Inc. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-06 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade and Investment Agreements: (African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States - ACP ) Trade and Investment Agreements Handbook - Strategic Information and Basic Agreements
Download or read book The ACP Group and the EU Development Partnership written by Annita Montoute and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes a systematic and critical assessment of the nature, evolution, and prospects of the development partnership between the 79-member African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) group of states and the 28-member European Union (EU). A core theme that runs through the work is that the ACP’s partnership with the EU remains an important framework for addressing development challenges in the African, Caribbean, and Pacific regions, but needs to adapt to changes in the global political economy, as well as internal developments in both the ACP and the EU, to sustain its relevance and effectiveness. This is crucial for the ACP group, in particular, given its origins in, and core focus on, development cooperation with Europe. The authors in this volume examine the history of the ACP-EU partnership since 1975; the EU’s relationship with the African, Caribbean, and Pacific regions individually; ACP experiences with economic partnership agreements with the EU; and new political issues, in particular, security, migration, and diasporas. Shedding light on the future prospects of this relationship, this book will be of interest to both scholars and policymakers working on the ACP-EU relationship and related development issues, including trade, aid, security, and migration.
Download or read book ACP EU Trade and Aid Co operation written by M. McQueen and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 1998 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lomé IV Convention, which provides the framework for development co-operation between the European Union (EU) and 71 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states, expires in the year 2000. The form that a successor arrangement would take, will be of considerable importance to the ACP countries, more than half of which belong to the Commonwealth. This study examines the possible options for the next phase of ACP-EU co-operation, addressing the diverse trade and development interests of ACP countries.
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 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 Aid Trade written by Brent Smith and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project demonstrates how the European Union's aid and trade relationship with the African, Caribbean & Pacific (ACP) group of states fits within the context of a multi-level Europe. The analysis draws on the multi-level governance (MLG) typology designed by Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks, and the earlier intellectual endeavours of G.P.E. Walzenbach and colleagues to explain the EU governmental and policy process policies in aid and trade with ACP. By examining the nature and evolution of European Union policy processes regarding international trade and development with ACP countries through the Type 2 model of MLG, it is the intent of this author to show how the European Union and its member states can coordinate their actions effectively, whilst maintaining individual sovereignty and without having to fit directly into the more hierarchical Type 1 model of MLG which applies to the overall structure of the European Union.
Download or read book North South Regional Trade Agreements as Legal Regimes written by Clair Gammage and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a critical reflection of the North-South regional trade agreements (RTAs), known as the Economic Partnership Agreements, negotiated between the EU and the African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries. Conceiving of regions as legal regimes, Clair Gammage highlights the challenges facing developing countries when negotiating RTAs with developed countries and interrogates the assumption that these agreements will and can promote sustainable development through trade.
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 Trade Relations Between the EU and Africa written by Yenkong Ngangjoh-Hodu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-10-16 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade liberalisation and openness, as linchpins for development have been flagships of conventional economic policy advices to most African countries over the last few decades. Much of the orientation of the focus however has been on the impact of international trade on development rather than the requirements that development should inform the shaping of the international trading system so that African countries may be able to benefit from such trade. This view has permeated both academic debate and the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) Negotiation between the European Commission and groups of African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States. This timely volume advances an alternative set of inter-related, interdisciplinary perspectives and debates which contribute to overlapping genres and discourses, notably how rules of origins may stifle the development dimension of EPAs, how special agricultural safeguards may be used in balancing the effects of trade liberalisation on small farm holders in Africa. It also discusses the centrality of aid for trade in trade negotiations, and mainstreaming development in the EPAs debate to enhance domestic supply side in Africa and the various regional integration processes in the region. This book focuses on areas of trade that may inform the development dimension of international trade. With this edited volume, a team of specialists provide a comprehensive survey of ACP –EU trade and Africa trade relation in the global context, placing it in its legal, economic and political contexts. The book innovative approach coupled with a stimulating and accessible writing style, allows the reader to engage fully with the content. It will be of most value to students, scholars and related policymakers of international, development and trade economics.
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 Guidelines for the Negotiation of New Cooperation Agreements with the African Caribbean and Pacific ACP Countries written by Commission of the European Communities and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Power in North South Trade Negotiations written by Peg Murray-Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advancing a constructivist conceptual approach, this book explains the surprising outcome of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union and developing countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (the ACP countries). Despite the EU’s huge market power, it had limited success with the EPAs; an outcome that confounds materialist narratives equating trade power with market size. Why was the EU unable to fully realise its prospectus for trade and regulatory liberalisation through the EPA negotiations? Emphasising the role of social legitimacy in asymmetrical North–South trade negotiations, Murray-Evans sets the EPAs within the broader context of an institutionally complex global trade regime and stresses the agency of both weak and strong actors in contesting trade rules and practices across multilateral, regional and bilateral negotiating settings. Empirical chapters approach the EPA process from different institutional angles to explain and map the genesis, design, promotion and ultimately limited impact of the EU’s ambitious prospectus for the EPAs. This volume will be particularly relevant to students and scholars of international trade and development and the EU as an international actor, as well as those researching international political economy, African politics and international trade law.
Download or read book Assessing Prospective Trade Policy written by Oliver Morrissey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Union (EU) has provided trade preferences to the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries since 1975. To maintain these preferences, a series of economic partnership agreements (EPAs) between the EU and regional groupings of ACP countries are being agreed, (negotiations started around 2003 and many framework agreements have been signed). As multilateral negotiations within the World Trade Organisation have stalled, EPAs are currently the single most important policy issue for ACP trade. This volume assesses EPAs and the potential impact on ACP countries, provides guidance for ACP negotiators in future negotiations and introduces methods to analyse the impact of future trade reforms. The essential features are that ACP countries commit to remove tariffs on substantially all imports from the EU and the EU offers improved market access to ACP exporters. For ACP countries the major impacts will be increased imports from the EU, hence a loss of tariff revenue and increased competition from imports in domestic and regional markets, implying significant adjustment costs, which may be offset by some increases in exports to the EU. This collection excellently outlines a variety of analytical methods that can be used to assess the potential economic effects of trade policy reforms, shows how these can be applied to EPAs and derives implications for the issues that should be addressed in negotiating the details of agreements. This valuable contribution offers a balanced assessment of the issues and should be essential reading for postgraduates and researchers focussing on Development Economics. Furthermore, the book is written in an accessible style and should be an excellent resource for trade negotiators and government officials concerned with trade relations, as well as officials in the European Commission, individual countries (ACP, Commonwealth, EU) and in multilateral organizations (WTO, UNECA, World Bank, UNCTAD).
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 After Lom IV written by Christopher Stevens and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By early 2000, a new trade agreement must be negotiated between the 72 countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group and the European Union, to replace Lome IV. This volume features: a commentary on the EU's proposals for the new trade arrangements.
