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The African Continental Free Trade Area - Prospects, Problems and Challenges. DE

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In March of 2018, 44 African countries signed the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement (AfCFTA) to launch what is considered as the largest free trade area in the world. The signing of the agreement has been hailed as a major breakthrough for African development by African countries and organizations as well as external observers of African affairs. This is not the first time African countries have proposed a new organizational and institutional structure for development. African countries have signed at least 13 regional trade agreements (RTAs) for intraregional trade since 1959.  However, the track record of these groups has been relatively mediocre compared to RTAs elsewhere. Thus, Africa has the lowest percentage of intracontinental trade in the world. 
This volume evaluates the prospects and challenges for the AfCFTA through a deep-dive assessment of previous trade blocs on the African continent and of regional free trade areas in other parts of the world. The central question of the book is this: If pre-AfCFTA trade blocs in Africa did not encourage more intracontinental trade, what guarantees that the  AfCTA will? The formation of the AfCFTA will definitely remove overlapping membership that existed with previous trading blocs on the continent, but what is different about the AfCFTA that will get rid of cumbersome regulation, boost manufacturing, and create jobs?  This book argues that the dreams of AfCFTA will not be realized unless African countries make efforts to address the industry mix of their economies and to enforce the rules and regulations they set down on paper.
 

List of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Perspectives on International Trade and Development.- Chapter 2. Regional Trade Agreements: Theory, Aspirations, and Realities.- Chapter 3. The Economic Community of West African States.- Chapter 4. The Economic Community of Central African States.- Chapter 6. The Southern African Development Community.- Chapter 7. The Community of Sahel-Saharan States.- Chapter 8. The East African Community.- Chapter 9. The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa.- Chapter 10. Other Regional Trade Agreements.- Chapter 11. Conclusion.

About the author










Benjamin Ofori-Amoah is Professor of Environment, Geography, and Sustainability and the Director of the School of Environment, Geography, and Sustainability at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He is an economic geographer and urban and regional planner with interests and expertise in economic development. His current research focuses on African economic development, and local economic development with reference to America's small cities.


Product details

Authors Benjamin Ofori-Amoah
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 06.07.2025
 
EAN 9783031591839
ISBN 978-3-0-3159183-9
No. of pages 217
Illustrations X, 217 p. 26 illus., 8 illus. in color.
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography

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