2014 will be an important milestone for shaping the policy field of development cooperation in a post-2015 context. Two central events are taking place. The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) will convene for its first High-Level Meeting in April 2014 in Mexico...

Structural funds are the most intensively used policy instrument by the European Union to promote economic growth in its member states and to speed up the process of convergence. This paper empirically explores the effectiveness of European Structural Funds by means of a panel data analysis for...

The volatility of exchange rates leads to reduction of the international trade volume, mainly in the emerging economies in which all the Mediterranean South countries belong to. Thus, this study discussed the impact of exchange rate issue on South- North trading flow, which comes timely after...

We present a two-step approach of assessing whether major donors of foreign aid have met recent demands for less proliferated and better coordinated aid efforts. First, we calculate Theil indices revealing the concentration of each donor's aid on recipient countries and specific aid sectors....

The Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement (PDCA) between the E.U. and Cuba was an important change in the way that the E.U. sought to engage with developing states. PDCA remains an important milestone for European foreign policy. It has become the template for European engagement with...

La version française de cet article peut être consultée à:http://ssrn.com/abstract=3793996Every three years, the AU-EU summit reunites African and EU leaders to outline the future direction of cooperation. The 6th summit had been to reaffirm and renew the partnership between the two blocks...

The present article investigates empirically whether non-reciprocal trade preferences (NRTPs) offered by QUAD countries (Canada, the European Union, Japan, and the United States) to developing countries have helped to promote economic growth in the beneficiary countries. Two main blocks of NRTPs...

The study aims to define trade as one of the important components of the European Union (EU) development policy. this has emerged since the establishment of the European community, but it has formed along with development throughout the growth of the EU. Furthermore, this debate presents an...

The present article investigates empirically whether non-reciprocal trade preferences (NRTPs) offered by QUAD countries (Canada, the European Union, Japan, and the United States) to developing countries have helped to promote economic growth in the beneficiary countries. Two main blocks of NRTPs...

A growing number of Africans flee from their desolate economic situation or violent conflicts and political persecution at home to Europe. The European Union shares responsibility for this growing economic misery, in view of its egoistic external trade policy. Nevertheless, it intensifies the...