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| Title: | Some Sample Analytics of the Trade and Welfare Effects of Economic Partnership Agreements |
| Authors: | Milner, Chris Morrissey, Oliver McKay, Andrew |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Periodical: | Journal of African Economies |
| Volume: | 14 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Period: | September |
| Pages: | 327-358 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | East Africa |
| Subjects: | Cotonou Agreement free trade areas international relations Economics and Trade |
| External link: | https://jae.oxfordjournals.org/content/14/3/327.full.pdf |
| Abstract: | The Cotonou Agreement, successor to the Lomé Convention, offers African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries preferential access to European Union (EU) markets by establishing economic partnership agreements (EPAs) between the EU and blocks of ACP countries that are members of regional trading arrangements. ACP countries entering such arrangements could retain preferential access to the EU market, but on a reciprocal basis. This paper presents a relatively simple method (with moderate data requirements) to measure the likely short-run welfare consequences, static effects on trade flows and tariff revenue, of such an arrangement for ACP countries. The partial equilibrium method is illustrated for the case of the East African Cooperation (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda). The analysis suggests that the welfare effects (excluding revenue effects) from a reciprocal agreement with the EU will be small, whether positive or negative, but ACP countries will experience short-run adjustment costs, especially in the form of revenue losses. App., bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |
