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Options for Future ACP-EU Trade Relations
European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1998Improved export performance and greater trade openness can help ACP economies to achieve faster growth. They are also necessary as a stimulus to countries starting or re-starting a process of industrialisation.DocumentConflict, Development and the Lomé Convention
Development Studies Association, UK and Ireland, 1999Examines the idea of conflict prevention as a new theme in development theory. It analyses conflict and development in a variety of aspects and raises the question of whether international conflict prevention is merely a new fashion in development theory.DocumentImproving the Complementarity of European Union Development Cooperation: From the Bottom Up
European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999Attempts to define "complimentarity", term used in the Maastricht Treaty to cover EU wide agreement on specialisation/cooperation in development cooperation provision.Paper reviews past efforts on explicit complementarity initiatives (mainly those involving poverty reduction issues) and suggests main policy opportunities:political climate is favourable for greater complementarity initiaDocumentSADC-EU Trade Relations in a Post Lomé World
Overseas Development Institute, 1999Guidelines prepared for the SADC Secretariat on options, opportunities and methods for negotiation of future trade agreements between the European Union and SADC.Summary (25 pages) available onlineDocumentAid for Trade Development: Lessons for Lomé V
European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999Reviews some recent initiatives that aim to improve the performance of trade-related aid projects. It then looks at the European Commission’s (EC) experience, considering the results of evaluations and assessing the new directions that are being followed. The concluding section provides some recommendations.DocumentReview of the impact of globalisation on the agricultural sectors and rural communities of ACP countries
Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 1999This paper attempts to review relevant sections of this work from an ACP perspective and to identify and clarify some of the key issues raised. The paper makes a number of suggestions that might assist ACP countries to develop policies to cope with changes in international rules on agricultural trade.DocumentThe impact of the EU’s ‘everything but arms’ proposal: a report to Oxfam
Oxfam, 2001This article outlines Oxfam's support for the European Commission’s proposal to improve acccess to the EU market for all products, except armaments, exported from the world’s 48 poorest countries as a small but welcome step towards fairer trade in the world.Conclusions of study:The so-called ‘Everything But Arms’ (EBA) proposal will bring economic benefits to the world’s poorestDocumentFrom Lomé to the GSP: Implications for the ACP of Losing Lomé Trade Preferences
Institute of Development Studies UK, 1997The EC Commission is proposing that, following the expiry of Lomé IV, those ACP states not classified as least developed be offered the choice of either negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) with the EU or having their terms of access to the European market changed to the standard generalised system of preferences (GSP).