Agricultural exports are vulnerable to many distance factors such as geographical, cultural,
economic and institutional distance. Panel data were collected from 63 countries (from 2002 …

While preferential trade agreements (PTAs) cover an increasing range of policy areas, little
is known about the implications of this new emphasis on interactions with other trade-related …

The objective of this paper is an ex-post evaluation of the European Union–Southern African
Development Community Economic Partnership Agreement (EU–SADC EPA) stemming …

The Samoa Agreement between the European Union (EU) and the Organisation of African,
Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) includes strict language on concluding controversial …

Abstract The European Union (EU) supports developing countries with a unilateral trade
preference scheme. The scheme underwent a major reform in 2014, in which many …

Nonreciprocal preferential trade arrangements are a defining feature of the relationship
between developed and developing countries dating back to the colonial era. In the late …

Although Africa has made some progress in the last two decades, the continent still faces
development challenges: the persistence of poverty, unemployment, and inequality. The …

This study employed the Casella (1996) model and its extension Badinger and Breuss
(2006) to examine the relationship between the size of a country and the effects of trade bloc …

This chapter explores UK elites' use of aid in Africa to achieve geopolitical and economic
goals for Global Britain. For example, it assesses the use of monies to incentivise Brexit …

Brexiteer politicians promised that Brexit would not have a negative impact on Africa-UK
trade. However, the chapter examines how UK elites in the pursuit of a Global Britain project …