Policy Briefs
The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is a preferential arrangement governing over U.S.-African trade and investment relations since the year 2000.
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) introduced its trade protocol in the year 2000 to promote intra regional trade in goods and services among its member states (MS) as well as financ
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) dates back from the formation in 1975 of the Frontline States which originally consisted of Botswana, Mozambique and Tanzania, Angola joined in 197
Implementation of the SADC Free Trade Agreement (FTA) began in 2000, and was launched in August 2008 fulfilling one of the objectives set under the Protocol on Trade signed in 1996.
Despite its apparent intuitive appeal, the notion of export competitiveness remains ill-defined, conceptually vague and subject to abuse.
The study was commissioned by the African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the Capacity Building on I
The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), being the cornerstone of U.S.
It is uncontroverted that efficient customs administration is very important for businesses to compete effectively in international markets.
This Policy Brief concentrates on assessing the state of transport, communications and energy infrastructure and the regulatory environment, and highlights their impact on intra-African trade.
This Policy Brief deals with Africa’s potential for intra-regional trade and the major constraints to that potential.
African countries and their regional economic communities (RECs) are pursuing integration through free trade and developing customs unions and a common market.
In spite of more than two decades of financial reforms, African payment systems to transact trade and business have remained very cumbersome, underdeveloped, fragmented, costly and inefficient.
Africa has 15 landlocked countries that face specific challenges.
Formal and informal cross- border trade in West Africa has increased since the 1990s as a result of economic liberalization policies, population growth and urbanization.
Informal trade or unrecorded trade is broadly defined as all trade activities between any two countries which are not included in the national income according to national income conventions becaus