tralac Working Paper No 10/2007, December 2007
The stalling of the talks in the Doha Round of the WTO in Geneva is leading to questions
about the value of such a round for Africa, and similarly there are many who question the
value of the possible Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) proposals for the African,
Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. To analyse this for Nigeria this paper uses the
Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) computer model1 to simulate (a) a likely outcome for
Nigeria from the Doha Round and (b) the impacts for Nigeria of going one step past the EPA
negotiations and entering into a full free trade agreement (FTA) with the EU.
Author(s): Ron Sandrey, Hans Grinsted Jensen, Olubukola Oyewumi