Did you say free trade ?

The economic 'Partnership' Agreement European Union - west Africa

Jacques Berthelot

• Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9782336851402
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Economic Theory
• Index: Economics

The headlong rush of the European Union (EU) in Free Trade Agreements reaches the paroxysm of absurdity when it imposes them on West Africa, whose per capita GDP is 21 times lower than its own. This Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) would make West Africa lose 76% of its customs revenue on its imports from the EU and lead to a sharp rise in unemployment due to the loss of competitiveness of its companies including the informal sectors.The latter will be worsened by the premature signing, with support from the EU, of the Continental Free Trade Area by 13 of 16 West African States, all this based on a number of untruths from the European Commission, as identified in this book.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Back cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Preface of Mamadou Cissokho
• Preface of Ken Ukaoha
• Introduction
• I - The EPAs would have been imposed by the WTO rules
• II – The interim EPAs of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana torpedo the primary goal of regional integration in West Africa
• III – The EU has refused to release 3 commissioned assessments on impact of WA EPA
• IV – The untruths about the EU development aid to the West Africa EPA
• V – The EU seems to ignore WA huge development challenges
• VI – The pseudo-scientific evaluation of DG Trade on the impact of WA EPA
• VII – A Realistic Methodology on the Impacts of the WA EPA and CI and Ghana iEPAs
• VIII – The EU is shooting itself in the foot by imposing EPAs
• Conclusion
• Acronyms
• Table of contents
• Address