Foreword--Lingston Cumberbatch, Chairman, European Centre for Development Policy Management; List of acronyms; About the contributors; I Introduction: 1 EPAs Make Sense Only if they Foster Development: A Broad Overview--Sanoussi Bilal and Roman Grynberg; II Background: 2 From Lomé to Cotonou: Business as Usual?--Olufemi Babarinde and Gerrit Faber; 3 Towards Greater Flexibility in Article XXIV of GATT 1994 in the Context of Reciprocal Trade Agreements between ACP States and the EU--Bonpas Onguglo; 4 Preparing for EPAs: Creating ACP Offensive and Defensive Agendas--Christopher Stevens and Jane Kennan; III The Development Dimension and Preferences in ACP-EU Relations: 5 The EPAs and Sustainable Development: Benchmarks for Pro-Development Monitoring of the Negotiations--ICTSD and APRODEV; 6 Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the EU and SSA: Risks, Rewards and Alternatives--Lawrence E. Hinkle and Richard S. Newfarmer; 7 For Richer or Poorer: Transforming Economic Partnership Agreements between Europe and Africa--Christian Aid; 8 Preference-dependent Economies in the Doha Round: Impacts and Options--Roman Grynberg and Sacha Silva; 9 GSP Reform: A Longer Term Strategy (with Special Reference to the ACP)--Christopher Stevens and Jane Kennan; 10 EU Assistance to ACP Countries Since 1975--Paul Goodison; 11 An Analysis of EU-ACP Aid Flows Through the EDF from Lomé I to the Cotonou Agreement and Proposals for the 10th and 11th EDFs--Alice Clarke; 12 An Assessment of the Overall Implementation and Adjustment Costs for the ACP Countries of Economic Partnership Agreements with the EU--Chris Milner; 13 A Strong Cocktail or a Weak Punch? A Case Study of EDF Assistance to the ACP Private Sector--Adam Dunlop; 14 In Defence of the ACP Submission on Special and Differential Treatment in GATT Article XXIV--Bonapas Onguglo and Taisuke Ito; IV Market Access: 15 Rules of Origin under EPAs: Key Issues and New Directions--Eckart Naumann; 16 WTO / EPA Negotiations: for a better coordination of ACP positions on agriculture--A Alpha, B. Faucheux, B. Hermelin, V.Fautrel; 17 ACP–EU Economic Partnership Agreements: Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures--Martin Doherty; 18 Overview of the EU Policies on Key ACP Commodities—CTA; 19 Reform of EU Export Subsidies on Sugar: The Legal and Economic Implications for the ACP Countries--Roman Grynberg, Chris Milner, Wyn Morgan and Evious Zgovu; 20 EBA-equivalence for non-LDC Sugar Exporters?--Chris Milner; 21 Financing Diversification in ACP Sugar-Exporting Countries--Edwin Laurent; 22 Small States in the Banana Dispute and the Lessons to be Learnt from their Experience--Edwin Laurent; V Fisheries Partnerships: 23 ACP–EU Economic Partnership Agreements: Fisheries--CFFA–Coalition for Fair Fisheries Arrangements; 24 EU Rule of Origin for ACP Tuna Products (HS Chapter 16.04)--Lindsey Block and Ronan Grynberg; VI Services: 25 The Development Dimension of Services Negotiations in the Cotonou Partnership Agreement--Dirk te Velde; 26 Tourism Services Negotiations Issues: Implications for Cariforum Countries--Adam Dunlop; VII Investment: 27 A Southern Agenda on Investment? Promoting Development with Balanced Rights and Obligations for Investors, Host States and Home States--Howard Mann and Konrad von Moltke; 28 The European Investment Bank and the ACP Countries: An Effective Partnership?--Sacha Silva; VIII Regional Perspectives: 29 Negotiating an Economic Partnership Agreement for Eastern and Southern Africa--Mark Pearson; 30 The Impact of Economic Partnership Agreement Negotiations on Southern Africa--Talitha Bertelsmann-Scott; 31 The Impact of ACP–EU EPAs on ECOWAS Countries: An Empirical Analysis of the Trade and Budget Effects--Mathias Bussee, Axel Borrmann and Harald Großman; 32 Negotiating an EU–Central Africa EPA: A Brief Overview--Nicolas Gérard and Francesco Rampa; 33 The Negotiations of an ECOWAS-EU EPA: Key Features--Nicolas Gérard and Sanoussi Bilal; 34 A Caribbean–EU EPA: Towards an Enhanced Partnership?--Junior Lodge and Sanoussi Bilal; 35 A Development Agenda for the Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and the Pacific ACP (PACP): A Concept Paper--Roman Grynberg and Bonapas Onguglo; IX Building ACP Capacity in Trade: 36 Coercion or Engagement? Economics and Institutions in ACP–EU Trade Negotiations--Stefan Szepesi; X The EPA Negotiations Process: 37 The Private Sector’s Perspective, Priorities and Role in Regional Integration and Implications for Regional Trade Arrangements--Nick Charalambides; 38 Talking Trade: Practical Insights on the Capacity to Conduct Trade Negotiations--Sanoussi Bilal, Geert Laporte and Stefan Szepesi.