For several years, preferential trade agreements have been oriented towards initiating a deep integration process … also raise new costs impeding trade. The aim of this paper is to verify that preferential trade agreements (PTAs) have a … higher positive effect on trade inside the area when they are bound by a democratic constraint. To achieve this, we use an …

trade and investment, the supportive macro-economic environment of low inflation and improved fiscal positions, increased …

sustainable development provides some orientations on which the researchers are invited to work: definition of new food basis …

South Africa faced difficulties during the transition process with the illegal arms trade due to high levels of corruption …

work through three channels: trade in goods and services, foreign direct investment and development assistance. To capture …English Abstract: The impact of economic and trade expansion of China on Burkina Faso's economy is analyzed in this … export prices of manufactured products; 6 - an increase in international prices of export commodities; 6-and a fall of the …

to conclude that euro-mediterranean agreements as well as world trade organisation agreement could be seen as last step … of Structural Adjustment Plans. Indeed, they allowed to depeen reforms, essentially with the openness to competition of … banking sector and telecom. Therfore, Free Trade Agreements could be seen as the mean to fasten institutional change. …