This paper on Trade Agreements within SSA, is an assessment of the ex post bilateral trade effect of the European Union …-African Caribbean Pacific Preferential Trade Agreement (EU-ACP PTA) and sub-regional regional trade agreements (RTAs) on bilateral trade … involving SSA countries. The main objective is to find out if EU trade preferences and regional trade agreements within SSA had …

Economic Partnership Agreement (EU-SADC EPA) stemming from changes in trade flows from the six members of the SADC (Botswana … extensive margins of trade resulting from tariff reductions, as a consequence of the EU-SADC EPA initiative. The impact on the … intensity of trade is estimated using a Difference-in-Differences (DID) estimation, controlling for both country and product …

The Post-Uruguay Round era has seen a proliferation of regional preferential trade agreements (PTAs), as well as … progressive multilateral trade liberalization initiatives. This has stimulated theoretical discussion on whether the policy of … protection in global trade due to trade diversion effects, thereby creating impediments to the multilateral freeing of global …