TY - CEPII
A1 - Houssein Guimbard
A1 - Maëlan Le Goff
TI - Mega-deals: What Consequences for sub-Saharan Africa?
IS - 2014-28
T3 - Working Papers
KW - International Trade
KW - Mega Deals
KW - Africa
N2 - The sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries are excluded from the mega-deals (EU-USA, EU-Japan, China-Japan-Korea…) under negotiations: they might however undergo important economic impacts, as their exports remain dependant from those large markets. Using a dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Model (CGEM), this paper find that mega-deals would have a negative impact on the welfare of SSA countries. Regional integration (the “Tripartite” FTA, a potential trade agreement gathering 26 African countries) in Africa might limit these losses but cannot overcome them. A continental RTA involving all SSA countries would slightly counterbalance the negative impact of the Mega deals. We also show that openness of African countries towards Asia could be a potential solution to avoid trade diversion.
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