Institute of Development Studies

Assessing the Impact of the Cariforum Economic Partnership Agreement

After several years of often fraught negotiations, and at the eleventh hour, in December 2007 the EU and the Cariforum group of countries finally initialled a full Economic Partnership Agreement. In addition to the provisions on goods trade, the agreement has provisions on trade in services and on development cooperation. The study analyses the trade and welfare implications of the EPA using a multi-region computable general equilibrium model as well as a single-region general equilibrium model of Jamaica.

• IDS key contact: Sherman Robinson
• Project dates: January 2008 - May 2008
• Project status: Closed
• Funder: World Bank

Researchers

• Sherman Robinson
• Dirk Willenbockel
• David Evans, Politics and Contemporary European Studies, University of Sussex
• Michael Gasiorek, Economics, University of Sussex

Partner Organisations

• Centre for the Analysis of Regional Integration at Sussex (CARIS)

Selected Outputs

• World Bank/Organization of American States (2009) Caribbean: Accelerating Trade Integration. Policy Options for Sustained Growth, Job Creation and Poverty Reduction, Washington, DC: The World Bank
• Evans, D., Gasiorek, M., Robinson, S. and Willenbockel, D. (2008) 'Assessing the Impact of the EU-Cariforum EPA'