Resources

By Bruce Byiers and Sean Woolfrey for The World Economy.

By the International Trade Centre, with contributions from the AU and the EU.

Trade and transport corridors are increasingly seen as means to implement the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). This paper looks at the Dakar-Bamako corridor to find out what economic and political actors and factors explain trade and transport dynamics in the region.

By the GPI Global Policy Incubator GmbH, in collaboration with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the African Union (AUC).

Tim Zajontz for Territory, Politics, Governance.

This political economy analysis shows the complex reality of the transport corridors connecting Malawi to the Mozambican coast.

Corridors are becoming all the rage – as a priority for the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and as a focus of the recently launched EU Global Gateway. Recent research can offer a range of insights into what these actually entail.

By Francis Mangeni and Andrew Mold for Brookings.

By Gerhard Erasmus and Trudi Hartzenberg for Tralac.

This paper explores Nigeria's seemingly opposing dynamics in its trade and industrial policy.

Through its PEDRO project, ECDPM has researched the political economy dynamics of regional organisations to better understand and promote discussion of the interests and incentives of the range of different actors who seek to cooperate and integrate around regional agendas and ambitions, including international partners. This introductory summary of our synthesis note sets the scene for two separate pages summarising the research on the above two areas of work.

By Papa Daouda Diene, David Manley, Silas Olan’g and Thomas Scurfield for NRGI.

Edited by Jonathan Hobbs and Diego Juffe-Bignoli, the Development Corridors Partnership.

Edited by Hugh Lamarque and Paul Nugent, with contributions from Hugh Lamarque and Paul Nugen, Sidy Cissokho, Isabella Soi, Sergio Oliete Josa and Francesc Magrinyà, Bruce Byiers and Sean Woolfrey, Jérôme Lombard, Nina Sylvanus, José-María Muñoz, Yunnan Chen, and Elisa Gambino.

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is hoped to promote industrial development through diversification and regional value chain development. This paper discuss some of the practical challenges and looks at the political dynamics that play out within and between states which could make or break regional industrialisation ambitions.

By Jonathan Bashi Rudahindwa and Sophie van Huellen for the Journal of African Trade.

The AU is currently developing a partnerships strategy as part of its ongoing reform process. This paper discusses the challenges lying ahead and looks at how the AU can advance its agency in external partnerships to ensure mutual benefits with win-win outcomes for the continent.

This paper explores how the AfCFTA and the AU’s free movement protocol alter the incentives shaping state relations on trade and movement of people, and how AfCFTA implementation will interact with existing regional agendas and initiatives.

By Mathilde Lebrand, The World Bank.

Thesis by Sokhna Oumou Khairy NDOYE at the University of Edinburgh.