Report prepared for the Commonwealth Secretariat by Dr. Chris Milner, School of Economics, University of Nottingham, October 2005

This study seeks to identify the type and scale of adjustment assistance measures that need to be implemented in the transition to an EPA in order to avoid or reduce the adjustment costs that would fall on ACP countries in the absence of this support. By identifying the types of adjustment support programmes required to increase the capacity to adapt to a post-EPA environment, the study concentrates on how to make EPAs work and bring development benefits for the ACP countries…
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