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EU trade policy reform : towards reciprocal concessions with developing countries
Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Arevik; Volmer, Maximilian - 2022
The European Union (EU) supports developing countries with a unilateral trade preference scheme. The scheme underwent a major reform in 2014, in which many countries lost access to reduced tariff rates. We analyse how this radical step that removed preferences from 103 countries by 2018 fits...
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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments : insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs
Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014 - Manuscript date: 24 October, 2014
To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...
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African agency and EU- African Economic Partnership Agreements
Kohnert, Dirk - 2014
This article provides a review of literature on African Agency and the drivers of change within EU–African trade politics in negotiations on Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and African governments.
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Infrastructure provision and Africa's trade and development prospects : potential role and relevance of The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA)
Niggli, Nicholas C.; Osei-Lah, Kodjo - 2014 - Manuscript date: 30 October, 2014
-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development … programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa … Government Procurement (GPA) is emerging as a multi-dimensional tool of trade, governance and development. The thesis of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010426539
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Neocolonialism or balanced partnership? : reframing agricultural relations between the EU and Africa
Lungu, Ioana - 2017
often portrayed in an overly simplified manner as the main factor hindering agricultural development, African countries are … of state centralisation for agricultural development, so that African partners can fully take advantage of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011847700
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The impact of G7 trade policies on economic development in Africa
Wolf, Moritz - 2024
Economic development in Africa is among the most important global challenges today. Meanwhile, the G7 is under pressure … improve economic development in Africa. But what about other tools, like trade? While the literature suggests positive effects … of trade on economic development, the trade efforts by the G7 have been underwhelming. Moreover, the trade share between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015064041
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Characterising non-tariff trade policy
Gruebler, Julia; Reiter, Oliver - 2020
Starting in the 1960s with the Kennedy Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), nontariff measures (NTMs) have been replacing tariffs continuously as the core element of trade negotiations. Today they take centre stage in all EU trade agreements with industrialised and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262471
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Intra-bloc tariffs and preferential margins in trade agreements
Ornelas, Emanuel; Tovar, Patricia - 2021
We study, theoretically and empirically, how countries choose intra-bloc tariffs and preferential margins when they form Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs). Our model indicates that countries should set systematically lower preferential margins when the bloc takes the form of a free trade area...
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Georgia's post-accession structural reform challenges
Arveladze, G.; Smeets, Maarten - 2017 - Manuscript date: May 2017
The process leading to WTO accession is complex, requires solid domestic coordination mechanisms in the acceding country, a rethinking of its economic and trade policies and significant domestic structural reforms. It often implies the creation of new institutions designed to coordinate and...
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Evolution of Asia's outward-looking economic policies : some lessons from trade policy reviews
Daly, Michael John - 2011 - Manuscript date: 17 August 2011
is that impediments to economic development are largely homegrown. Consequently, unilateral structural reform, of which … GATT/WTO, the stalling of negotiations in connection with the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) should not preclude further …
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