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Bilateral and regional free trade agreements: some critical elements and development implications
Third World Network, 2007This brief examines free trade agreements (FTAs) between a developing country and a developed country with regard to issues such as:DocumentSouth Asian integration prospects and lessons from East Asia
Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2008South Asia enjoys only low levels of regional cooperation when compared with East Asia. However, now is an appropriate moment to push forward South Asian integration for several reasons:DocumentMonitoring regional integration in Southern Africa Yearbook. Volume 7 (2007)
Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit, 2007External and internal developments have raised the regional integration agenda in southern Africa to a new level. However, the region remains committed to a linear model of regional integration: a customs union is seen as the logical next step to take. But this might be an unrealistic and inappropriate target at this stage.DocumentThe new EPAs: comparative ananlysis of their content and the challenges for 2008
European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2008The start of 2008 marked the end of over 30 years of Lomé/Cotonou preferences, and yet most ACP countries did not lose their privileged access to European markets.DocumentTrade policy options for Nigeria: a GTAP simulation analysis
Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2007Nigeria exports mainly fuels and mining products to the US and the EU. Nigerian exports have effectively duty-free access into both of these destinations while Nigerian tariffs are high by international standards.DocumentEPAs: Thinking outside the European box
Groupe d'Economie Mondiale, 2007The preferences granted by the European Union (EU) to the ACP countries in Cotonou are neither reciprocal nor extended to all developing countries and therefore not compliant with WTO legislation.DocumentInvestment provisions in regional trading arrangements in Asia: relevance, emerging trends, and policy implications
Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2007This paper examines the role of investment liberalisation in Asian regional trading arrangements (RTAs). In general, RTAs facilitate the rationalisation of industry, i.e. the exploitation of economies of scale and specialisation. By extending the effective size of the market, RTAs also strengthen a region's investment climate and competitiveness.DocumentThe Asian way of regional integration: are there lessons from Europe?
Kiel Institute of World Economics/Institut für Weltwirtschaft, 2007The widening of East Asian regional integration has been driven by external aspects. Lessons Asia could learn from the European experience are however limited in their reach because:DocumentCOMESA customs union: an assessment of progress and challenges for Eastern and Southern Africa’s poor
Trade and Development Studies Centre – Trust, Zimbabwe, 2007COMESA's goal is the establishment of a free trade area, a customs union, a common market and ultimately an economic union. COMESA is home to 10 of the poorest countries in the world - Angola, Burundi, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Zaire and Zambia. Therefore, this paper examines the impact of COMESA on the poor. Benefits of the COMESA Customs Union are:DocumentEconomic implications of an association agreement between the European Union and Central America
Institute for International and Development Economics, 2007While many agricultural products from Central America already enter duty-free into the European Union (EU) thanks to the GSP plus initiative, there remain two notable exceptions: bananas, a major Central American export, and sugar which is hardly exported to the EU due to subsidy and tariff restrictions.Pages