Beyond Market Access for Economic Development EU-Africa relations in transition
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Jan Orbie is a Professor at the Centre for EU Studies, Ghent University, Belgium.
Gerrit Faber is Associate Professor of International Economics at the Utrecht University School of Economics, the Netherlands.
The Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and the Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries have drastically restructured Europe’s trade architecture towards the third world. This volume examines the consequences of EPAs for development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Starting from the observation that the establishment of free trade as such will substantially impact upon economic development, the different contributions focus on the potential contribution of non-traditional aspects of EPAs. More specifically, the authors analyze the role of Aid for Trade schemes, regulatory integration issues and broader foreign policy considerations. How can these non-market access aspects stimulate development in Africa, and how have they been addressed in the EPAs? In short, this brings us to the question whether the ‘light version EPAs’ as they currently stand are a missed chance or a blessing in disguise?
Starting from the observation that the establishment of free trade as such will substantially impact upon economic development, the different contributions focus on the potential contribution of non-traditional aspects of EPAs.
List of illustrations
Notes on the contributors
Preface
List of abbreviations
PART I
New dynamics in EU–ACP relations: the genesis of EPAs
1 EPAs between the EU and Africa: beyond free trade?
Gerit Faber and Jan O rbie
2 From Cotonou to EPA light: a troubled negotiating process
Ole Elgström
3 The EU’s insistence on reciprocal trade with the ACP group: economic interests in the driving seat?
Gerit Faber and Jan O rbie
PART II
Spurring regional integration?
4 Export competitiveness and regional integration in Africa
Paul Brenton , Mombert Hoppe and Richard Newfarmer
5 ACP development, integration and the capacities of transport
infrastructure: the missing link
Olumuyiwa B . Alaba
6 EPAs and integration in SSA
Olufemi Babarinde and G erit Faber
PART III
The new trade agenda and deep integration
7 Services and investment in the EU–CARIFORUM EPA: innovation in rule-design and implications for Africa
P iere Sauv é and Natasha Ward
8 The integration of migration issues in EPAs
Tine Van C riekinge
9 To be or not to be: intellectual property provisions in the EPA negotiations
Paul Kruger
PART IV
Aid and trade: squaring the circle
10 EPAs and the demise of the commodity protocols
Alan Mathews
11 Development aid for EPAs
Sanousi B ilal
12 . . . and never the twain shall meet? An institutionalist perspective of EU trade and development policies in the context of the EPA negotiations
J es Pilegard
PART V
European foreign policy through EPAs
13 A human rights-based approach to the ACP–EU EPAs: issues and implications
Karin Arts
14 Labour rights in EPAs: can the EU–CARIFORUM EPA be a guide?
Bart Keremans and Myriam Martins G istelinck
15 Beyond purely commercial interests: the EU’s fisheries policy and sustainable development in Africa
Maurizio Carbone
16 The missing link: EPAs, security and development interventions in Africa
Gorm Rye Olsen
PART VI
Taking stock
17 Of potholes and roadblocks: the difficult path to development relevant EPAs
Gerit Faber and Jan O rbie
Index
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Jan Orbie is a Professor at the Centre for EU Studies, Ghent University, Belgium.
Gerrit Faber is Associate Professor of International Economics at the Utrecht University School of Economics, the Netherlands.