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Forthcoming changes in the EU banana and sugar markets: a menu ofoptions for an effective EU transitional package
Overseas Development Institute, 2005Preferential access under the EU’s Sugar and Banana Protocols has supported large income transfers to a number of ACP countries. These transfers will be reduced under proposed reforms to the EU’s sugar and banana markets which are due to take place at the end of 2005.DocumentEU sugar reform; the implications for the development of LDCs
Department for International Development, UK, 2005This study argues that the granting of unlimited duty-free access under the EBA (Everything But Arms) Agreement will coincide with reform of the EU sugar regime, which is expected to lead to significant price reductions in the EU market.DocumentReform of the sugar regime in the European Union
International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity, 2005This paper proposes a pro-development reform of the EU sugar market order.DocumentPeople’s guide to the Pacific’s Economic Partnership Agreement: Negotiations between the Pacific Islands and the European Union pursuant to the Cotonou Agreement 2000
EpaWatch, 2005This report examines the negotiations between the European Union and the Pacific ACP states for a Pacific regional Economic Partnership Agreement.DocumentEU–ACP Economic Partnership Agreements: the effects of reciprocity
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005This briefing discusses the potential implications of the EPAs, as reflected in recent research from the IDS.DocumentSix fallacies associated with agricultural liberalisation debunked
Columbia University Library, 2004This paper aims to identify and subsequently debunk what it considers to be fundamental fallacies in the discourse on agricultural liberalisation.The myths identified by the paper are, as it is argued, held by a wide variety of actors, including the World Bank but also development NGOs such as Oxfam.DocumentSix reasons to oppose EPAs in their current form
Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2004This paper is a response from leading ACP and EU civil society organisations to some of the key arguments put forward in support of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) as currently envisaged by the EU.DocumentImplications of the Cotonou Agreement for sustainable development in the ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific) countries and beyond
International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2004This 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.DocumentThe TDCA, EPAs and Southern African regionalism
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004This paper looks at the potential problem that EPAs (Economic Partnership Agreements) may create a division in the Southern African region.DocumentThe EU-ACP trade negotiations: why EPAs need a rethink
Christian Aid, 2004This 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.Pages
