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"This paper examines the impact of trade facilitation on intra-African trade. The authors examine the role of trade facilitation reforms, such as increased port efficiency, improved customs, and regulatory environments, and upgrading services infrastructure on trade between African countries....
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market on trade growth in the regions of Africa and Asia. An exclusive comparison of trade performance of the two regions …
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scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic …-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development … programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa …
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The agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has been attracting a great deal of attention in academic and policy circles, as well as within the international development community. The growing interest in the AfCFTA partly reflects the fact that the African...
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This study examines the potential for intra-Africa trade and the prospects of advancing regional economic integration … reveal the existence of significant potential for intra-Africa trade. However, realizing this potential and hence the effort … to advance regional integration through intra-Africa trade is challenged by lack of complementarities of exports and …
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were motivated by the very low intra-trade activities in Africa, despite increased regionalism to study the possibility of … regions namely, Western, Middle, Eastern, and Southern Africa. We divided the time into pre- and post-AfCFTA periods. The …
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The African Continental Free Trade Area marks a historic decision on the road to regional economic integration on the continent. If implemented, the agreement has the potential to make a significant impact on improving the livelihoods of the African people, by increasing intra-African trade and...
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