Tag: Regional integration
tralac’s Daily News Selection
10 Jan 17 NewsLooking ahead: The 2018 Economic Report on Africa – scope of contents (UNECA)
The 2018 ERA will be structured in two parts. Part I will discuss both recent developments in the w...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
09 Jan 17 NewsFeatured tweet, @AUTradeIndustry: CFTA Planning retreat from 2-7 January 2017, in Nairobi, Kenya
African integration: facing up to emerging challenges (ICTSD)
This paper exami...
African integration: Facing up to emerging challenges
09 Jan 17 NewsLeast developed countries (LDCs) and low-income countries, particularly in Africa, have been enjoying a sustained period of economic growth and macroeconomic stability. Nevertheles...
The East African Community: Another diplomatic headache for Kenya?
09 Jan 17 NewsThe East African Community has been on top in Africa as a fast rising trading bloc in the past one and half decade, after its resurrection in 1999 by its original members, Kenya, U...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
06 Jan 17 NewsAhead of the AU Summit later this month: commentaries by two candidates for the position of African Union Commission Chairperson
Senegal’s Abdoulaye Bathily: ‘Africa has no fu...
UN partners with Africa’s development agenda 2017-2027
06 Jan 17 NewsThe then United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Alpha Konare, Chairperson of the African Union Commission at that time, signed the Ten-Year Capacity Building Programm...
African trade and integration
04 Jan 17 Themestralac’s primary aim is to help build capacity for government officials, policymakers, and regional organisations to more adequately address the most pressing trade matters facin...
The impact of regional integration on Nigeria’s imports: A case of ECOWAS Common External Tariff on agro-processing
07 Dec 16 PublicationsThere have been several attempts to foster deep integration within West Africa in times past to take advantage of the well-known gains from this regional integration. These gains i...
Fast-tracking the Continental Free Trade Area: Regional economic communities as building blocks
02 Dec 16 NewsExtracts from the presentation made by Mr. Prudence Sebahizi, Chief Technical advisor on the CFTA and Head of the CFTA Negotiations Support Unit, during the Africa Trade Forum at A...
Promoting agricultural global (regional) value chains in Africa
01 Dec 16 DiscussionTaku Fundira, tralac Associate, comments on the development of agricultural value chains in Africa and policy-related issues to consider for them to be successful
The need for a b...
African Civil Society Statement on the Continental Free Trade Agenda at Africa Trade Week 2016
28 Nov 16 NewsFrom 26 to 27 November, 2016, civil society organisations from Africa met under the umbrella of the Africa Trade Network in Addis Ababa, in advance of the Africa Trade Week and the...
Continental Wide Service Liberalization within Africa
23 Nov 16 PublicationsFollowing on from their initial tralac Trade Brief “Service Liberalization within Africa – Trying to Quantify the Potential Impact”, the authors utilize the model, database a...
Intra East Africa Community (EAC) trade from a Kenyan perspective, with an emphasis on re-exports
16 Nov 16 PublicationsThe objective for this paper is to examine intra-EAC trade with a special emphasis on the position of Kenya in this trade and the role of re-exports. The latter has become possible...
East African Common Market Scorecard 2016
11 Nov 16 NewsTracking EAC compliance in the movement of capital, services and goods
Achieving regional integration is not easy, but has a significant pay-off. The objective of establishing the...
Movement of Service Providers in the EAC: Legal Analysis
10 Nov 16 PublicationsThe East African Community (EAC) achieved a common market in 2009 when the Heads of States and Governments signed the Common Market Protocol (CMP). It became effective in July 2010...
How to forge a better SACU? Not by following the News Headlines
02 Nov 16 DiscussionGerhard Erasmus, tralac Associate, discusses the need for reform in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU)
The news of the day tends to shape the news of the day. South Africa...
Subsidiarity: Should it be included as a guideline for the CFTA Negotiations?
27 Oct 16 PublicationsAfrica’s integration agenda has always been an ambitious one. The typical approach is to target trade in goods and for the Member States to determine, in advance, the timelines f...
Africa Trade Week 2016: The Continental Free Trade Area and trade facilitation
27 Oct 16 NewsAdvancing Socio-Economic Structural Transformation through Intra-Africa Trade
Africa Trade Week 2016 will be held at the African Union Head Quarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from...
Regional Competition Law – A COMESA perspective
14 Sep 16 PublicationsThe promotion of competition and fair business practices is an essential aspect of market regulation and regional integration. This Trade Brief provides an overview of the COMESA c...
Esibayeni Declaration of the Southern Africa Business Forum
09 Sep 16 NewsOn 24 August 2016, during the inaugural SADC Industrialisation Week, held in Swaziland, over 200 private sector representatives from across the region gathered for the Second Annua...