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The East African Community signalled that the bloc was ready to sideline countries that compromise funding.
Despite its current crisis, Ecowas can look back on successes in integration, peace and security, and good governance.
The Southern African Development Community Parliament will have the delicate job of ensuring good participatory regional governance while protecting national sovereignty.
Washington’s protectionist industrial policy is fracturing trade and investment flows based on geopolitical considerations.
Producers in Zambia should be getting more for their crops, and buyers in East Africa should be paying less, alleviating food price spikes.
Harnessing the combined effect of trade and urbanisation could significantly boost the economies of African countries.
The sub-region’s approach to free trade agreements, whether in the form of economic partnerships with the EU or regional and continental integration needs a rethink.
America has historically been a strong Ethiopia ally, but this latest move to withhold foreign direct assistance has thrown its loyalty into question.
Poor and inconsistent pricing data makes it hard to assess agricultural markets.
The community’s response to the pandemic has been fragmented despite gestures of regional solidarity
Malawi must change its diplomatic approach and align its national interests with Mozambique’s
West Africa has lessons to learn from its ancient empires and colonial governments on regional trade and integration.
Viewed against the odds of success in getting 55 countries to foster meaningful regional integration, Africa has made commendable progress in crafting its own creative approach.
All over the world people who have been harmed by the conventional money systems are devising alternative currencies, challenging the centralised monetary policy approach.
For real integration to happen, the Pan African Parliament needs to be imbued with supranational law-making powers. But national sovereignty is something that many states are reluctant to give up.
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) roadmap towards greater regional trade integration and development is a good start but lacks detail.
Uganda needs to boost manufacturing and exports to realise the ambitions listed in its social and economic development plan.
The need to connect African markets to aid development will once again be discussed at the World Economic Forum. The debate needs to move beyond the usual rhetoric.
A stalled Trans-Pacific Partnership opens the way for China, which was excluded from the agreement, to assume leadership in regional economic integration efforts in the Asia-Pacific.
Top contributors
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Professor of Economics, Centre for Competition, Regulation & Economic Development, UJ, and at SOAS University of London; advisor Shamba Centre for Food & Climate, University of Johannesburg
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Afrobarometer Senior Analyst/Methodologist, University of Cape Town
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Founding Director, Institute for Sustainability, University of Surrey
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Senior Lecturer (Development Economics/Project Appraisal), University of Bradford
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Reader in Economics, University of Westminster
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Researcher, International Growth Centre
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Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard Kennedy School
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Teaching Fellow, University of Birmingham
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Consulting Economist; and Senior Research Fellow University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Research Fellow & Research Lead (Trade and Economic Policy) at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore
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Reader in the School of Law and Politics, University of Hull
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Researcher at the Centre for Competition Regulation and Economic Development, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Lecturer in African History, Humanities and Social Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University
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Associate Professor, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies/ History, University of Oxford
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Post-doctoral Research Associate, Liverpool John Moores University