African Economic Development

Teaming up with Oxford academics, Christopher Cramer and John Sender, Arkebe Oqubay (PhD) has co-authored a book on Africa...

FRAMEWORK FOR BOOSTING INTRA-AFRICAN TRADE IN AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES AND SERVICES

Africa’s agriculture and agribusiness can expand to one trillion dollars in a decade, the World Bank estimates. Ironically, Africa remains a net 19 billion dollars importer of agricultural commodities and food in the two ...

Why the extent of intra-African trade is much higher than commonly believed—and what this means for the AfCFTA

Andrew Mold, from UNECA, and Samiha Showdhury, from the World Bank, challenge the “Oxford View” on three grounds: The comparative analysis fails to compare apple to apple; large scale commodities exports ...

Africa’s free trade area offers great promise. But only if risks are managed with resolve

It has become truism that free trade will not solve all of Africa’s problems, although it has the potential to lift close to 30 million people out of poverty. Africa has, however, a lot to learn from Europe on how the promise of regional trade bloc succeeds. It is about identifying the pitfalls such as tariff, standards ....

Interview with Mr Rowland Ataguba - The African High Speed Railway Network

The free trade area in Africa hardly succeeds in the absence of an integrated high speed rail network covering much of the continent...

Toward the African Continental Free Trade Area : The Effects of Economic Integration and Democracy on Real Misalignments across Exchange Rate Regimes