Economic partnership agreements: What can we learn?

New Political Economy

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 211-223

  Stevens, Christopher ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; EUROPEAN UNION; FREE TRADE; PARTNERSHIP APPROACH; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; REGIONALISM; TRADE AGREEMENT;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS;

EID: 47049126448     PISSN: 13563467     EISSN: 14699923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13563460802018562     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Antoine Bouët, David Laborde & Simon Mevel, Searching for an Alternative to Economic Partnership Agreements, Research Brief, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington DC, December 2007
2. Claire Delpeuch & Georges Harb, EPAs: Thinking Outside the European Box, draft version, Groupe d'Economie Mondiale, Paris, December 2007.
3. Oxfam, 'Unequal Partners: How EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) Could Harm the Development Prospects of Many of the World's Poorest Countries', Oxfam Briefing Papers, October 2006.
4. Comprising the English-speaking Caribbean, the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
5. ODI, 'Economic Partnership Agreements: What happens in 2008?', Briefing Paper No. 23, Overseas Development Institute, June 2007.
6. Seychelles and Nigeria applied in late 2007, but the EU regulation establishing GSP + sets an end 2005 deadline which will not be re-opened until 2009.
7. ODI, 'The Costs to the ACP of Exporting to the EU under the GSP', Report prepared for the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Overseas Development Institute, London, March 2007.
8. Oxfam, 'Unequal Partners'.
9. The EU's reluctance arose partly from a legitimate desire not to have to seek a further extension of policies that have been declared 'WTO illegal' and partly because other WTO members have begun to ask for 'favours' in return for agreeing to a waiver.
10. ODI, 'The Costs to the ACP'.
11. ODI, 'Analysis of the Economic and Social Effects of Namibia's Potential Loss of Current Preference to the European Union', Study compiled for Agriculture Trade Forum, Namibia, Overseas Development Institute, May 2007
12. ODI, 'Analysis of the Economic and Social Effects of Botswana's Loss of Preferential Market Access for Beef Exports to the European Union', Study compiled for Botswana Institute of Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA), Overseas Development Institute, August 2007.
13. However, only 75 of the 77 ACP Cotonou trade provision beneficiary states negotiated an EPA. Somalia and East Timor did not.
14. Mike Faber & Reginald Herbold Green (eds), Structural Adjustment of Structural Adjustment: SSA 1980-1993 (Institute of Development Studies, 1994).