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BKP Development Research & Consulting GmbH (BKP Development) is an economic research and consulting firm owned and managed by its two partners. The company was established in 2006 and is based in Munich (Germany) with associates in Ethiopia, Ghana and the Netherlands. The partners and associates of BKP Development have worked on and managed projects in more than 40 countries worldwide. |
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Monday, 16 April 2012 00:00 |
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Our latest Trade and Development Discussion Paper (No. 01/2012, of March 2012) analyses the motives behind the EU's use of trade defence instruments. We find that the strongest case for TDI is based on an implicit “insurance” role. The EU, like other WTO Members, in liberalizing access to its market under conditions of imperfect information and an absence of appropriate insurance markets, de facto uses TDI as a form of insurance policy to deal with disruptive pressures. This perspective on TDI reconciles trade liberalization with the occasional recourse to protection.
More information about the paper and download. |
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Friday, 16 March 2012 14:57 |
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The European Commission has published a study prepared by BKP Development which evaluates the EU's use of trade defence instruments (TDI) over the 2005 to 2010 period. The Commission considers that "the evaluation represents an invaluable contribution to a better understanding of the various effects of trade defence instruments" and expects that "the evaluation study will provide important input for the modernisation initiative" of the EU's TDI, which is about to be launched.
More information: Press release, which provides links for downloading the complete study (two volumes). |
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Tuesday, 17 April 2012 15:12 |
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We have just started, in cooperation with Economisti Associati, to prepare a needs assessment and feasibility study on business incubation in the Caribbean for the World Bank's infoDev programme. The assignment will be implemented over a three-month period, with an expected completion in June 2012. |
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Monday, 19 March 2012 00:00 |
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Study after study shows that Ethiopia's industry is not internationally competitive. A conclusion often derived from this it that it needs to be protected against international competitors.
In a commentary published by AddisFortune Dan Ciuriak, Derk Bienen and Mamo Mihretu argue that tariff protection has not worked. Rather, what Ethiopia needs is a vastly greater variety of businesses. It needs a veritable eco-system of firms interacting in each other’s supply chains. The Government could facilitate the development of such an eco-system by streamlining business registration and licensing, devising an efficient financing scheme for start-ups, and reducing the cost of trade through trade facilitation.
The bottom line is that a competitive economy requires competitors, not protection from competition. The key to unlocking Ethiopia’s competiveness puzzle is not tariff protection but the removal of domestic constraints on entry of new businesses.
Download commentary. |
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