“The aim of this brief, compiled by the International Food Policy Research Institute, is not to support or oppose the EPA process, but to assess its consequences for the EU, the ACP countries, and third countries by focusing on the trade component of the agreement. The intent is to open the discussion to a range of approaches. Indeed, for ACP countries the current debate has been quickly reduced to the proverb: choose the lesser of two evils, EPA or GSP. But are there reasonable alternatives to these two options? And are these alternatives compatible with WTO regulations? Would they be worthwhile from an economic point of view?”

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