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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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334764
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Implementing the African Continental Free Trade Area : A Simple, Scalable, and Fast Computational Approach for Algorithmic Governance
Atkinson, Craig - 2022
This chapter suggests a rationale for a simple, scalable, and fast computational approach through the ‘Data With Direction Specification’ (DWDS) to supplement the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The specification provides a way for digitally executable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014240841
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603023
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Regional developmentalism in West Africa : the case for commodity-based industrialization through regional cooperation in the cocoa-chocolate sector
Rudahindwa, Jonathan Bashi; Van Huellen, Sophie - In: Journal of African trade : official journal of the … 8 (2021) 1, pp. 82-95
to achieve their ambitious goal of promoting sustainable development through trade integration in Africa. In light of … on the use of regional and subregional approaches to development. Instead of full-fledged trade liberalization and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805547
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European Union policy towards Free Trade Agreements
Woolcock, Stephen - 2007
to multilateralism in trade and to the completion of the stalled Doha Development Agenda. This paper considers the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011619046
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The People's Republic of China and India : commercial policies in the giants
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2011
infrastructure as well as research and development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283419
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Critical review of East Asia – South America trade
Yamanaka, Shintarō; Tafgar, Aiken - 2013
, we know little about the actual dynamic development of this inter-regional trade. This paper examines whether the trend …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696943
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Deepening regional integration within the Southern African development community
Fall, Falilou; Gasealahwe, Boingotlo - 2017
Deepening regional integration within the Southern African Development Community (SADC) will raise potential growth for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011823670
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882817