| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Series |
African histories and modernities |
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African histories and modernities.
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| Contents |
Chapter 1. Introduction. -- chapter 2. Globalization and regional trade agreements. Regional trade agreement -- Preferential trade agreements from inception to the World Trade Organization -- The politics of global trading system and regional trade agreements -- Regionalism -- Regional trade agreements and regional integration. -- chapter 3. Theoretical framework of North-South. Regional trade agreements -- Neoclassical, and neoliberal political economy theories -- Neo-Marxists, dependency, under development and world system -- Conceptual framework. -- chapter 4. History of Euro-Africa relations: from Yaoundé Convention to economic partnership agreements. Cotonou partnership agreements and economic partnership agreement -- Eurozone crisis and implications for the funding of the economic partnership agreements -- Global economic crisis and the European Union economy -- Africa-European strategic partnership agreements -- Development options for Africa in a period of crisis in relations to the European Union. -- chapter 5. Economic partnership agreements and macro-economic development in Nigeria. Partnership or paternalism? EU-ACP economic partnership agreements -- EU funding provisions for the EPAs. -- chapter 6. Economic partnership agreements and the non-oil exports in Nigeria. Services -- Fishery exports -- Fishing policy -- Law and regulations governing fishery products in Nigeria -- Main challenges to fishery exports in Nigeria -- The political economy of Nigeria fishery exports sub-sector -- Fisheries in the context of international trade -- Cotonou Agreement and provisions dealing with fishery agreement -- Access agreements on fishery -- Sanitary and phytosanitary measures -- Rules of origin -- Value chains and value addition -- Markets -- Export of fisheries in Nigeria -- EPAs and agriculture: cocoa exports. -- chapter 7. State capacity and trade policy in Nigeria. State capacity and trade policy: theoretical and conceptual clarifications -- Trade policy -- Constraints to trade policy formulation in Nigeria -- Economic partnership agreements: what role for the state in Nigeria? -- chapter 8. The political economy of regional integration and development in Africa: rethinking theory and praxis. Regional integration in Africa -- Dominant theoretical models of regional integration in Africa -- Market integration -- Neoliberal economic theory -- Dependency of development cooperation approach -- New economic geography -- Efforts towards regional integration -- Regional integration: towards a new approach -- Economic partnership agreements and regional integration in West Africa. -- chapter 9. Political economy of regional integration and development in Africa: rethinking theory and praxis. -- chapter 10. Regionalism or multilateralism: building national competitiveness for economic development in Nigeria |
| Summary |
The resurgence of regionalism is borne out of the current political logjams that have characterized the governance and operations of multilateral trading system over the past one decade and a half. Oloruntoba critically examines Euro-Nigeria relations within the context of the Economic Partnership Agreements in terms of the political and economic implications of the agreements on Nigeriaℓ́ℓs non-oil exports sub-sectors. Set within one of the main objectives of the Economic Partnership Agreements, he also interrogates the prospects and challenges of regional integration in Africa under the regime of transnational accumulation, which the Economic Partnership Agreements represents |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Commercial treaties.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Economics.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General.
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Commercial policy
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Commercial treaties
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International economic integration
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International economic relations
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| SUBJECT |
Nigeria -- Foreign economic relations -- European Union countries
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European Union countries -- Foreign economic relations -- Nigeria
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Nigeria -- Commercial policy
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Africa -- Economic integration
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| Subject |
Africa
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European Union countries
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Nigeria
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137568670 |
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1137568674 |
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