-Saharan Africa over the coming decade. Can light manufacturing export sectors still serve African development the way they served …This study asks what impact the Fourth Industrial Revolution will have on job creation and catchup development in Sub … East Asian development in the past? If factory floor automation reduces the need for low-cost labour in global value chains …

- nontariff - trade barriers. More specifically, regional tariff commitments have not only amplified applied tariff overhangs … the World Trade Organization (WTO), but have also sharply reduced their tariff policy space within Africa, thus leaving … regulatory policies such as sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures and technical barriers to trade (TBT) as two of the few …