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    Trade traps: why EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements pose a threat to Africa’s development

    ActionAid International, 2004
    This report challenges the European Commission’s argument that the proposed free trade Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) constitute the best approach to integrate African countries into the global economy and to reduce poverty.
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    Implications of the Cotonou Agreement for sustainable development in the ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific) countries and beyond

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2004
    This paper critically reviews the Cotonou Partnership Agreement (CPA) - the economic partnership agreement between the EU and a group of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. It explores the approach to development underlying the agreement.
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    A changing EU: what are the development implications?

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2004
    In the light of important changes in the EU’s internal and external environment throughout the year 2004, the paper assesses the possible implications of such changes for the EU’s development policy.The changes in the EU’s internal and external environment include:a new political leadership, including Parliament elections, a new College of Commissioners and an expanded Council after the
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    The EU-ACP trade negotiations: why EPAs need a rethink

    Christian Aid, 2004
    This policy brief reviews the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), which were signed between the EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries as part of the Cotonou Agreement.The brief states that after failing to do so at the WTO talks, the EU now uses the EPAs to push free trade via the back door into the ACP countries.
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    EPAs: the hidden danger

    Traidcraft, 2004
    As part of a series of 10 briefing papers forming a "Fair Trade Tool Kit", this brief examines the hidden dangers of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), which are the trade pillars of the wider Cotonou Agreement signed between the EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.The brief states four reasons why why EPAs are a bad deal for poor countries:The EU is making gr
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    Are Economic Partnership Agreements likely to promote or constrain regional integration in southern Africa?: options, limits and challenges Botswana, Mauritius and Mozambique are facing

    Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit, 2004
    The vast majority of the South African Development Community (SADC) and Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) countries belong to the group of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states. As such they are also members of the Cotonou Agreement which grants Europe’s former colonies preferential, non-reciprocal access to the EU market.
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    Political conditions in the Cotonou Agreement: economic and legal implications

    Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit, 2004
    The African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries have been entering into trade agreements with the European Union (EU) since the first Lomé Convention of 1975. The first Lomé Convention was replaced by a series of subsequent Lomé Conventions and then by the Cotonou Agreement of 2000 (Cotonou).
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    Key agricultural issues in the post-Cotonou negotiations

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002
    This Paper discusses the well-established positions that have characterised the EU–African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) debate on trade for the past five years. Negotiations have begun for a successor to the trade regime in the current Cotonou Agreement, with the new trade regime scheduled to be in place by 2008.
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    The Cotonou Agreement and its implications for the Regional Trade Agenda in Eastern and Southern Africa

    World Bank, 2003
    The paper presents an overview of the main Regional Trade Agreements currently in place in Eastern and Southern Africa and reviews the evolution of trade flows and trade policies in the region, focusing on the development of intra-regional trade for the two main RTAs through the 90s.
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    African horticulture is blooming - will it wither with international trade policy reform?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Horticulture is an African export success story, particularly in Kenya and Zimbabwe. Can producers maintain or improve upon their positions in highly competitive markets? Will changes in international trade policy make a difference? If so, what are the implications for African production and export strategies?

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