The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA): Does it really present opportunities?
Author
Shahla Shapouri and Michael Trueblood
Organisation
Economic Research Service, US Department of Agriculture
Publication Date
12 June 2003
Paper presented at the International Conference "Agricultural policy reform and the WTO: where are we heading?" This paper attempted to address three main questions about AGOA: The first question looks at how well the market access provisions in AGOA match up with the structure of African exports prior to its enactment. The second question is related to the effectiveness of the program, and the third question concerns what economic theory would have predicted thus far.