Apr 18
Text of a paper presented at the Commonwealth Secretariat High Level Technical Meeting: EPAs: The Way Forward for the ACP. Cape Town, South Africa, 7-8 April, 2008
The basic development problem of the ACP Group of Countries…is inadequate, uncompetitive and undiversified productive capacity. Yet the present Agreement that the European Community (EC) has designed for them, that purports to be an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), is almost entirely about market access and other trade-related modalities…
