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The promise of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)
This paper provides an overview of some of the potential opportunities and benefits of the AfCFTA, particularly in relation to manufacturing, agriculture, services and e-commerce, but also of the challenges involved in moving from agreement to impact.
30 November 2020
A critical appraisal of the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement
By Akinkugbe, Olabisi D. for International Economic Law (southern) African Perspectives and Priorities.
23 November 2020
Phases and uneven experiences in African industrial policy
By Lindsay Whitfield and Nimrod Zalk for The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Policy.
10 November 2020
Governing the interface between the African Continental Free Trade Area and Regional Economic Communities Free Trade Areas: Issues, opportunities and challenges
By Olayiwola W. and UNECA.
02 November 2020
Understanding regional value chains through the interaction of public and private governance: Insights from Southern Africa’s apparel sector
By Pasquali, G., Godfrey, S. & Nadvi, K. for Journal of International Business Policy.
23 September 2020
Report on best practices for effective transit transport corridor development and management
By UN-OHRLLS.
28 May 2020
One-stop border posts in East Africa: State encounters of the fourth kind
By Paul Nugent and Isabella Soi for the Journal of Eastern African Studies.
26 May 2020
The integrated corridor approach - A holistic infrastructure planning framework to establish PIDA-PAP 2
By the African Union Commission
27 February 2020
Designing trade liberalization in Africa: Modalities for tariff negotiations towards an African Continental Free Trade Area
By UNCTAD.
01 January 2020
Promoting agro - industry supply chains along the transport corridors of Eastern and Southern Africa
By the COMESA Business Council.
31 December 2019
A missed opportunity for regionalism: the disparate behaviour of African countries in the EPA-negotiations with the EU
By Sebastian Krapohl for Journal of European Integration.
01 September 2019
The political economy of Africa’s regional ‘spaghetti bowl’ – Synthesis report
This report synthesises the findings of a two-year research project on the political economy dynamics of regional organisations (PEDRO). It aims to explain why African countries join multiple, often overlapping, regional organisations despite the complications this ‘spaghetti bowl’ of agreements creates; and what drives and constrains the regional agendas and processes of these organisations.
27 May 2019
The East African community cotton textiles apparels strategy and implementation roadmap 2020-2030
By EAC.
01 May 2019
Nigeria and South Africa: Shaping prospects for the African Continental Free Trade Area
This paper analyses the political economy of trade policymaking in Africa’s two largest economies, Nigeria (which has not signed the AfCFTA Agreement) and South Africa (which belatedly signed), to better understand how domestic dynamics influence the way these two countries engage with the AfCFTA.
11 February 2019
Financing the African Union – on mindsets and money
With 55 member countries, an elaborate institutional architecture, a broad policy agenda, and a high dependency rate on its former colonisers and main donors, the African Union (AU) is probably the world’s largest and most complex regional partnership configuration.
04 February 2019
The political economy of regional industrialisation strategies
This paper summarises the political economy analyses of the regional industrialisation strategies in the COMESA, EAC, ECOWAS, and SADC regions, looking at these in terms of the three main market failures that national industrial policies seek to address.
17 December 2018
West and Central Africa trucking competitiveness
By Abel Bove, Olivier Hartmann, Aiga Stokenberga, Vincent Vesin and Yaya Yedan, SSATP.
01 April 2018
AU migration governance: non-aligned views on migration governance in Africa
What blocks or drives regional integration in Africa? And what role do regional organisations play in this? To answer these questions, we have dug deeper into the political economy dynamics of 17 regional organisations in Africa. This policy brief analyses the approaches of the African Union (AU) and national level stakeholders to migration governance and related challenges.
04 December 2017
The African Union: How to become fit for purpose?
What blocks or drives regional integration in Africa? And what role do regional organisations play in this? To answer these questions, we have dug deeper into the political economy dynamics of 17 regional organisations in Africa.
04 December 2017
Combating unjustified sanitary and phytosanitary measures in the African tripartite free trade area (SADC–EAC–COMESA): SPS-Plus or SPS-Minus?
By Harrison Otieno Mbori for Hungarian Journal of Legal Studies.
01 December 2017