Inclusive Trade in Africa: The African Continental Free Trade Area in Comparative Perspective (The International Political Economy of New Regionalisms Series)

by David Luke (Editor), JamieMacleod (Editor)

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Hardcover
2019
$141.80

This book assesses what important lessons can be drawn from the experiences of regional integration in and beyond Africa, including from success stories like ASEAN as well as from failures like the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas. It provides analysis and recommendations on several of the core areas necessary for an inclusive CFTA, including approaches to services trade, rules of origin and how to use aid for trade to support the implementation of the CFTA. It also contextualizes the CFTA in a changing world trade environment. Finally it looks ahead with a subsection on the topics for phase two of the negotiations, competition policy and intellectual property rights.

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This book assesses what important lessons can be drawn from the experiences of regional integration in and beyond Africa, including from success stories like ASEAN as well as from failures like the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas. It provides analysis and recommendations on several of the core areas necessary for an inclusive CFTA, including approaches to services trade, rules of origin and how to use aid for trade to support the implementation of the CFTA. It also contextualizes the CFTA in a changing world trade environment. Finally it looks ahead with a subsection on the topics for phase two of the negotiations, competition policy and intellectual property rights.

$141.80

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 226
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 04 Apr 2019
ISBN 10: 1138394521
ISBN 13: 9781138394520

Author Bio

David Luke is Coordinator of the African Trade Policy Centre at the UN Economic Commission for Africa with the rank of a director at the Commission. He is responsible for leading ECA's research, policy advisory services, training and capacity development on inclusive trade policies and in particular the boosting intra-African trade and the continental free trade area initiatives. His portfolio also includes WTO, EPAs, Brexit, AGOA, Africa's trade with emerging economies, and trade and cross-cutting policy areas such as trade, industrialization and structural transformation, trade and gender, trade and public health and trade and climate change. Prior to joining ECA in 2014, he served as UNDP trade policy adviser in Southern Africa and Geneva and also as Senior Economist and Chief of Trade at the Organization for African Unity/African Union Commission, and as an Associate Professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. Jamie MacLeod is a Trade Policy Fellow of the Africa Trade Policy Centre (ATPC) at the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He has consulted broadly on trade policy issues, including with the World Bank, the European Commission and the Danish International Development Agency, and was formerly a Trade Economist at the Ghanaian Ministry of Trade and Industry. He holds an M.Sc. in Economics for Development from the University of Oxford, where he was a Snell Scholar, and an M.A. in Economics from the University of Glasgow.