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EU-African regional trade agreements as a development tool to reduce EU border rejections
Fiankor, Dela-Dem Doe; Ehrich, Malte; Brümmer, Bernhard - 2016
The integration of developing countries into the world trading system is an important development mechanism to reduce … EBA eligibility has induced significantly exports of fruits, nuts and vegetables from Africa to the EU-27. Estimating … trade enhancing effects of RTAs that go beyond tariff reductions, as all EU-Africa RTAs have negative effects on border …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526954
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Subnational income growth and international border effects
Adam, Hanna L.; Larch, Mario; Stadelmann, David - 2021
This paper analyses the effect of international borders and of trade agreements at international borders on subnational (i.e. regional) growth. We construct an extensive panel dataset covering 1,350 regions in 86 countries worldwide between 1950 and 2017. Our results show that international...
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Border Effects of Overlapping Regional Trade Blocs in Africa
Agwara, Hezekiah - 2012
This paper tests the hypothesis that overlapping and competing regional trade blocs undermine trade in Africa. Using … the proposed merger of three trade blocs in the Eastern and Southern Africa region into a Free Trade Area and estimating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014163932
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The Legal and Economic Implications of Economic Partnership Agreements in Kenya's Trade Arena : Assessing Liberalization of Agriculture and Food Security
Juma, Jill - 2010
This paper examines the concept of Reciprocal Trade Liberalization – the common objective of Economic Partnership Agreements, and its legal and economic effect on Kenya's Agricultural Sector/Industry within the purview of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). The study is premised...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141980
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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
scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic …-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 …
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Economic Integration Agreements, Border Effects, and Distance Elasticities in the Gravity Equation
Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Larch, Mario; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2021
yields economically plausible and statistically significant estimates of the declining effect of “national borders” on world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315671
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How does the regular work of WTO influence regional trade agreements? : the case of international standards and the TBT Committee
McDaniels, Devin; Molina, Ana Cristina; Wijkström, Erik - 2018 - Manuscript date: 23 March 2018
This paper illustrates how the work of the WTO's standing committees is fuelling regulatory cooperation between WTO members, and inspiring RTA negotiators. We explore, as a case study, how the WTO TBT Committee has shaped provisions on international standards in RTAs, and focus on the extent to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011847570
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Trade re(im)balanced : the role of regional trade agreements
Sokolova, Maria V. - 2016 - This version: May 2016
This paper documents the novel fact that Regional Trade Agreements (RTA) decrease bilateral trade imbalances as measured by conventional measure of the net export share in gross trade. While on average an RTA decreases bilateral trade imbalance by 7%, greater trade integration through a deeper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490953
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On the widely differing effects of free trade agreements : lessons from twenty years of trade integration
Baier, Scott L.; Yotov, Yoto V.; Zylkin, Thomas - 2016
We develop a novel two-stage methodology that allows us to study the empirical determinants of the ex post effects of past free trade agreements (FTAs) as well as obtain ex ante predictions for the effects of future FTAs. We first identify 908 unique estimates of the effects of FTAs on different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011560677
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Studying the volatility effect of agricultural exports on agriculture share of GDP : the case of Egypt
Ahmed, Osama; Sallam, Walid - 2018
This article aims to examine the long and short run relationship between agricultural exports and agriculture share of GDP. Links between series considered are assessed by co-integration analysis using Johansen co-integration technique and ECM-GARCH. Results indicate a positive link in the short...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011813120