Jane Kennan

Research Officer, International Economic Development Group

Jane specialises in the analysis of trade and related statistical data in order to support studies of trade policy. She has undertaken research for a wide range of clients, including the UK Department for International Development, the EU Commission, the European Parliament, the Netherlands Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Development Assistance, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the South African National Treasury and Department of Trade and Industry, the Andean Group Secretariat, the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery, and the governments of Colombia, Mauritius, Moldova and Ukraine.

Outputs

The CARIFORUM EU-Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA): the development component

Publication - Research reports and studies - 30 March 2009

Mareike Meyn (ODI), Christopher Stevens (ODI), Jane Kennan (ODI), Nick Highton (ODI), Sanussi Bilal (ECDPM), Corinna Braun-Munzinger (ECDPM), Dan Lui (ECDPM), Jeske van Seters (ECDPM), Collette Campbell (CaPRI) and John Rapley (CaPRI)

This study considers the likely effects of the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) and the implications for the EU's development policy. It goes on to make a number of recommendations regarding the implementation of the agreement.

Download

The CARIFORUM and Pacific ACP Economic Partnership Agreements: Challenges Ahead?

Publication - Research reports and studies - 31 January 2009

Commonwealth Secretariat Economic Papers 87

Christopher Stevens, Mareike Meyn and Jane Kennan

This report on the CARIFORUM and Pacific ACP Economic Partnership Agreements analyses the detailed implications for their economies including an indication of the broad country and region-wide effects. It provides a ‘baseline analysis’ of highly complex documents which make many specific commitments.

Download

The global financial crisis and developing countries

Projects - December 2008 to January 2010

The global financial crisis that emerged in the financial sector in developed countries has spread to the real sector in both developing and developing countries. ODI’s Investment and Growth Programme has conducted research on the global financial crisis since October 2008.

Find out more

The African Economic Partnership Agreements - what the details reveal

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 7 April 2008

By Chris Stevens, Mareike Meyn and Jane Kennan

We have been strangely silent in commenting on the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) initialled last December by 18 African, 15 Cariforum and 2 Pacific states – and with good reason. We have been busy working with the European Centre for Development Policy Management to analyse all the African interim EPAs.

Read and comment

The new EPAs: comparative analysis of their content and tasks for 2008

Publication - Research reports and studies - 1 April 2008

Christopher Stevens, Mareike Meyn, Jane Kennan, Sanoussi Bilal, Corinna Braun-Munzinger, Franziska Jerosch, Davina Makhan and Francesco Rampa.

Provides a comprehensive analysis of the trade regimes for Africa that replaced the Cotonou Partnership Agreement (CPA), the negotiations that remain to be completed and the challenges facing Africa in implementation.

Download