Integrating Africa into the World Trade Organisation : Constraints and Challenges Facing the African Union and the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)

The author considers the role of the African Union and the New Partnership for Africa's Development as new and potentially powerful vehicles for the growth and development of the African continent. There is little doubt that the African Union-New Partnership for Africa's Development faces many challenges and that the benefits of the multilateral trade regime will become freely available only if factors that work against the realisation of African integration and market access could be skilfully managed or eliminated