Trade Relations Between the EU and Africa: Development, Challenges and Options Beyond the Cotonou Agreement

by Ngangjoh-hodu; Yenkong

• ISBN13: 9780415549813
• ISBN10: 0415549817
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This timely volume advances an alternative set of inter-related, interdisciplinary perspectives and debates which contribute to overlapping genres and discourses on development economics and trade relations between the EU and Africa.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. xii
List of tables	p. xiv
List of contributors	p. xvi
Foreword: H.E. Abdoulaye Wade, President of The Republic of Senegal	p. xx
Foreword: H.E. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, President of The United Republic of Tanzania	p. xxii
Acknowledgements	p. xxiv
List of abbreviations and acronyms	p. xxv
Notations and variables	p. xxviii
Africa-EU trade relations in the twenty-first century: an introduction	p. 1
Contextualising the debate of the Africa-EU trade relations beyond the Cotonou Agreement	p. 3
Focus of the debate of the EU-Africa trade relations beyond the Cotonou Agreement	p. 11
Development dimensions and poverty alleviation in EPAs	p. 17
Development agenda in the WTO regional processes: the EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreement in contex	p. 19
The development dimension or disillusion? The EU's development policy goals and the Economic Partnership Agreements	p. 40
EPAs and poverty alleviation: any link? The case of the ESA regional group	p. 59
Rules of origin in the EPAs and WTO trade regimes	p. 73
Rules of origin of the European Union's Preferential Trade Agreements with special reference to the EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements	p. 75
Effects of rules of origin on the European Union-Africa EPAs: cumulation of issues	p. 97
Market access challenges in the EPA and WTO trade regimes	p. 113
International development law and Preferential Trade Agreements involving developing countries	p. 115
Agricultural safeguard measures in the context of the Economic Partnership Agreements	p. 151
EPAs, Cotonou and the WTO: legal dimensions	p. 185
Issues for EPA and WTO negotiations for African commodity exports: selected country case studies	p. 199
Indentifying products of defensive and offensive interests in both EPA trade regimes and WTO negotiations for commodity-dependent ACP economies: lessons from an empirical review of Tanzania's agricultural sector	p. 201
Geographical indications, coffee and economic development: the Ethiopia-Starbucks case	p. 246
Policy implications and conclusions	p. 263
A practical approach for mainstreaming development dimensions in ACP-EU trade relations: key policy implications	p. 265
Conclusions	p. 270
Appendix: WTO notifications	p. 275
Index	p. 283
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