The Cotonou Agreement, successor to the Lome Convention, offers African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries preferential access to EU markets by establishing economic partnership agreements (EPAs) between the EU and blocks of ACP countries that are members of regional trading arrangements....

This paper is the second in an analysis of a survey of 83 manufacturing enterprises in Tanzania. The previous analysis reported that large firms are more likely to export than other firms, and more large firms sustain their investments than smaller firms. Also, parastatals, including firms with...

Current arrangements under the Lomé Convention have given African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries preferential access to EU markets, but the legality of this non- reciprocal arrangement has been challenged by the World Trade Organisation. The European Union has proposed replacing these...

Since the mid-1980s Tanzania has implemented a number of trade and fiscal policy reforms that were partly intended to encourage increased export activity by manufacturing firms. Macroeconomic data suggest that there has been little response. To understand this lack of response we need to...

This paper evaluates the impact on Uganda of the liberalisation of world trade, especially in agricultural commodities, as proposed in the Uruguay Round. We can draw three broad conclusions. First, the impact of multilateral liberalisation on a low-income country such as Uganda appears to be...