Offsets and Economic Development

In 2002, EPS initiated a project on the economic costs, benefits, and unintended consequences of the use of barter arrangements, or "offsets," in international arms transfers.

Using the relationships of our international affiliates, and funds from the Eisner Project Development Fund, we co-hosted a conference in Cape Town, South Africa. The primary aim of the conference was to facilitate and stimulate academic study and discussion of arms trade offsets and economic development internationally and in South Africa. The conference:

• Brought together international and local experts in the area
• Brought together academics, policy makers, civil society and journalists
• Considered international experience and policy on offsets;
• Considered the South African experience in this light
• Recommended policy principles for South Africa and the developing world.

	Conference Program
	Conference Sponsors
	Abstracts
	Papers from the conference have been collected (with other commissioned articles) in Arms Trade and Economic Development: Theory, Policy and Cases in Arms Trade Offsets. Brauer, Jurgen and Paul Dunne, eds. Routledge, 2004.

This is the accessible text file for the US Government Accountability Office report number GAO-03-649 
entitled 'Defense Trade: Report and Recommendations of the Defense Offsets Commission Still Pending' 
which was released on May 30, 2003.