Africa
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EU-Africa Trade Relations: The Political Economy of Economic Partnership Agreements
Research Areas: Africa EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Peter DraperFor the last five years the European Union has been negotiating Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the African, Caribbean, and Pacific...
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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...
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Estimating Price Elasticities of Supply for Cotton: A Structural Time-Series Approach
Tags: agricultureThe Kalman Filter is used to estimate a structural time-series model of cotton supply for 30 countries and 16 aggregated regions. Estimated...
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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...
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From Euro-Med Partnership to European Neighborhood: Deeper Integration à la Carte and Economic Development
Research Areas: Africa EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe expansion of the European Union (EU) has prompted the development of a new approach towards deeper integration with its neighbors: the European...
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AGOA and Apparel: Who Captures the Tariff Rent in the Presence of Preferential Market Access?
The United States grants preferential (tariff and quota free) market access to a list of products from eligible countries in sub-Saharan Africa...
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The Impact of US Subsidies on the World Cotton Market: A Reassessment
Following a critical review of the existing quantitative literature on cotton subsidies, a vector autoregression (VAR) is used to model the...
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Market Power in International Commodity Processing Chains: Preliminary Results from the Coffee Market
Vector autoregressions are used to model price transmission through the coffee processing chain, from producers to the world market and from the...
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