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Cover IMF Working Papers
Caribbean Bananas: The Macroeconomic Impact of Trade Preference Erosion
Mr. Paul Cashin
,
Mr. Montfort Mlachila
, and
Cleary Haines
This paper examines the macroeconomic effects of the erosion of trade preferences, with a focus on the export of Caribbean bananas to Europe. Estimates are made of the magnitude of implicit assistance provided over a period of three decades to eastern Caribbean countries through banana trade preferences. The value of such assistance rose until the early 1990s, and has declined precipitously since then. Using vector autoregressive analysis, the paper finds that changes in the level of implicit assistance have had a considerable macroeconomic impact, especially on Caribbean real GDP growth.
Keywords:
WP; trade preference; EU banana regime; real GDP; country authorities; EU export unit value