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One Minute to Midnight: Is There Still Time to Rethink EPAs?
The European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries are entering the final phase of negotiation over...
Trade Costs, Barriers to Entry, and Export Diversification in Developing Countries
This paper finds that a 1 percent reduction in the cost of exporting or the cost of international transport is associated with an export...
Subsidies and Regulatory Reform in West African Cotton: What are the Development Stakes?
Available evidence strongly suggests that cotton producers in West Africa are relatively unresponsive to changes in world prices. This means they are...
EU-Africa Trade Relations: The Political Economy of Economic Partnership Agreements
For the last five years the European Union has been negotiating Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the African, Caribbean, and Pacific...
South South Trade in Goods
The empirical analysis presented in this paper indicates that trade between developing countries (South-South trade) offers a wide scope for...
Estimating Price Elasticities of Supply for Cotton: A Structural Time-Series Approach
The Kalman Filter is used to estimate a structural time-series model of cotton supply for 30 countries and 16 aggregated regions. Estimated...
Debt Relief and Changing Governance Structures in Developing Countries
In this paper we empirically discuss the question whether or not debt relief in the past fifteen years has been economically rational. Analysing the...
From Euro-Med Partnership to European Neighborhood: Deeper Integration à la Carte and Economic Development
The expansion of the European Union (EU) has prompted the development of a new approach towards deeper integration with its neighbors: the European...