This report provides a new perspective on Africa’s urban economies that is unique in its breadth and level of detail …-economic dimensions, cities significantly outperform the countries in which they are located. In Africa, urbanisation accounts for …

1. Introduction -- 2. Overview of regional integration in Africa -- 3. The theory of free trade areas: the case for an … for fast-tracking an Africa Continental Free Trade Area -- 6. Movement of people and the right of residence and … establishment -- 7. Movement of goods and services in Africa -- 8. Movement of investment and capital in Africa -- Tables -- Figures …

status of Africa's economic integration is the subject of Chapter 2. The CFTA aspires to liberalize trade between African … countries across the continent and to build on the considerable successes already achieved within Africa's regional economic …