The establishment of the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) is a major milestone in the long march of African integration. As foreseen in the Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community (commonly known as the Abuja Treaty), which entered into force in 1994, the integration process is to...

Egypt is one of Africa’s industrial heavyweights. Transforming the country's economy to sustain job-rich and sustainable growth are pivotal steps in its march towards prosperity. Today’s search for new development models, accelerated by the unfolding of the COVID-19 pandemic, calls for...

This new East Africa report is fruit of a partnership between TradeMark East Africa and ECA’s sub-regional office for Eastern Africa – two organisations that share a pan-African vocation and the conviction that greater intra-regional trade and investment is the way forward. As one of the...

1. Introduction -- 2. Overview of regional integration in Africa -- 3. The theory of free trade areas: the case for an African Continental Free Trade Area -- 4. The African Continental Free Trade Area: an empirical analysis -- 5. Perspectives for fast-tracking an Africa Continental Free Trade...