The paper evaluates the economic partnership agreement (EPA) which the European Union is forging with African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries and concludes that it is a raw deal for these developing countries. Particularly for Africa, the author likens the EPA to the Berlin conference of...

The countries of Sub-Saharan Africa are disproportionately among those receiving the most foreign aid per capita in the world. In this paper we assess the intensity of aid flows to African countries, defined as the size of these flows relative to the categories of economic activity they are...