Africa still needs millions of better-paying jobs and higher productivity to reduce poverty. What has changed is the route to achieving those goals.
Articles on African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)
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African countries face unfair trade rules, delayed decisions and weak support, leaving them exporting raw goods and losing out economically.
Agoa’s effectiveness was limited even before US tariffs started changing unpredictably.
Public finance is the means through which societies either raise living standards or entrench dependence.
Without the AU, the continent would have weaker bargaining power and slower coordination on issues that touch public life.
Africa’s leaders must urgently rationalise the mission of regional integration and ensure that common political values underpin its ambitions.
Other countries like China, Turkey, Brazil and Gulf states have already recognized the potential of the African market. Every year Canada delays, it risks losing ground that will be hard to reclaim.
For African exporters, a world without Agoa and with broader US tariffs is a double squeeze on competitiveness.
Many of Africa’s most powerful innovations are not being measured correctly.
African countries seem to agree that migration can link to development outcomes, but struggle with actually implementing it.
African countries require efficient infrastructure networks to boost trade within the region and with the rest of the world.
Africa holds the world’s largest untapped digital growth potential.
The system’s promoters must figure out how to compensate the African countries that run trade surpluses.
Regularising freer movement of people across African borders is one of the continent’s great developmental challenges.
It’s likely that free movement will advance first among groupings within regional communities.
Africa should push for extension of AGOA rather than bilateral trade deals with the US.
Kenya’s new president needs to forge closer ties with regional heavyweights to create a balance of power that favours his country.
Colombia is an important South American regional hub and potentially important trade partner for Africa.
Harnessing the combined effect of trade and urbanisation could significantly boost the economies of African countries.
Companies are moving their production back to developed countries. This is jeopardising the decades-long progress in global poverty reduction.
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