Distributional effects of graduation from the EU’s GSP scheme: Can the GSP trade preference scheme have gender-specific effects?
The objective of the EU’s trade preference scheme GSP is to alleviate poverty, create jobs and promote international principles and values. Graduation is when a certain product group or beneficiary country loses its EU GSP trade preferences, after having reached a predefined level of development or having become too competitive. This thesis analyses the graduation mechanism in the EU GSP in terms