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scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic …-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development … programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa …
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This paper deals with the role of regional trade in fostering the resilience of domestic food markets. Using country … production and trade data from FAOSTAT database, a series of simple indicators are calculated that shed light on the potential … for domestic markets stabilization through trade among African countries within Regional Economic Communities, including …
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This paper deals with the role of regional trade in fostering the resilience of domestic food markets. Using country … production and trade data from FAOSTAT database, a series of simple indicators are calculated that shed light on the potential … for domestic markets stabilization through trade among African countries within Regional Economic Communities, including …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018451
towards meeting overly ambitious objectives; (ii) small changes in the destination of trade across all Regional Economic … Communities, indicative of persistent high trade costs and few new manufactures products destined for geographically close markets … high number of provisions not covered in Word Trade Organization negotiations, but these have low legal enforceability …
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This article provides a review of literature on African Agency and the drivers of change within EU–African trade …
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Trade and investment can be effective means of implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. However …, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have negative side …-effects on non-economic facets of sustainable development. As such, they are best to be accompanied by trade facilitation …
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This paper analyses the proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between EU and India focusing on services trade. Based on … agreement and next predict the impact on services trade flows using a general equilibrium structural gravity analysis. I find …'s trade with the rest of the world would not change much, while India's exports to the rest of the world would decline by …
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In 2006 the EU decided to abandon its moratorium on negotiating new free trade agreements. Since then, numerous … impact of the free trade agreements by themselves, their mutual compatibility as well as their relations with the larger … agenda of multilateral trade liberalization. As a matter of fact, regional trade agreements are controversial in economics …
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We survey the latest research on the linkages between international trade, regional integration, poverty and food … security in developing economies and draw out its implications for East Africa and future research. While there is now an … extensive literature on the impacts of trade reform on poverty outcomes, research on the actual and potential effects of trade …
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Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and the impending COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA). The research aims to …
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