In support of progress towards regional integration in Africa, the Economic Commission for Africa, African Union … Commission and African Development Bank jointly produce Assessing Regional Integration in Africa (ARIA). The first edition (ARIA … I), published in 2004, provided a comprehensive assessment of the status of regional integration in Africa, with …

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 … African Continental Free Trade Area -- 4. The African Continental Free Trade Area: an empirical analysis -- 5. Perspectives …

status of Africa's economic integration is the subject of Chapter 2. The CFTA aspires to liberalize trade between African …The establishment of the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) is a major milestone in the long march of African … countries across the continent and to build on the considerable successes already achieved within Africa's regional economic …