The Impact of EU Export Refunds on the African Continent: An Impact Assessment |
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| Authors: | Cesar Revoredo-Giha George Philippidis Luiza Toma Alan Renwick |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Land Economy and Environment Research Group, Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), Edinburgh, UKcesar.revoredo@sruc.ac.uk;3. Aragonese Agency for Research and Development (ARAID), Unit of Agro-Food Economics and Natural Resources, Centre for Agro-Food Research and Technology (CITA), Zaragoza, Spain &4. Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), DG JRC, Seville, Spain;5. Land Economy and Environment Research Group, Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), Edinburgh, UK;6. Agri-Business and Rural Development Section, School of Agriculture and Food, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland |
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| Abstract: | The EU’s export refund policy has long been a source of controversy for its perceived impacts on third country markets. However, the EU Commission maintain that these concerns are largely historic as CAP reforms mean that export refunds are now used infrequently. The purpose of this article is therefore to assess the impacts of refunds in the wake of the 2003 reform of the CAP using two complementary analyses: first, an analysis using a computable general equilibrium model and second, two case studies to assess the potential impact of export refunds in selected African developing countries. |
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