Publication list
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
This paper seeks to draw attention to the gender dimension of climate change and the need to integrate gender issues in climate change responses, with particular emphasis on women’s concerns.
Economic growth in Africa declined to 5.1 per cent in 2008 and is projected to fall sharply in 2009.
The main message of this second edition of the African Governance Report (AGR II) is that Africa has made modest progress in improving governance using the benchmarks of the first edition of the re
Drought and desertification are at the core of serious challenges and threats facing sustainable development in Africa.
The report identifies proven interventions for achieving health MDGs in Africa. Next, it links the interventions to health outcomes through a health production function.
Investing in education is regarded as one of the centerpieces of development.