At the end of 2007 the WTO waiver granted for the non-reciprocal EU/ACP trade preferences will phase out. New economic partnership agreements are currently under negotiation, but whether the ACP countries will be able to benefit from them depends to a large extent on the institutional setting in those countries. The following article takes the example of the Economic Community of West African States to examine the situation more closely.
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Borrmann, A., Busse, M. Institutional Prerequisites of Economic Partnership Agreements. Intereconomics 41, 231–236 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-006-0192-5
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