Inclusive Trade in Africa (eBook, ePUB)

The African Continental Free Trade Area in Comparative Perspective
Redaktion: Luke, David; Macleod, Jamie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Providing the first book-length analysis of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), this volume asks how can it be ensured that the AfCFTA is effectively implemented to deliver inclusive trade in Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429684753
• Artikelnr.: 56149769

Autorenporträt

David Luke is Coordinator of the African Trade Policy Centre at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. He is responsible for leading the UN Economic Commission for Africa's (ECA) research, policy advisory services, training and capacity development on inclusive trade policies and in particular the boosting intra-African trade and the African 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. He holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Jamie MacLeod is a Trade Policy Expert of the Africa Trade Policy Centre at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa 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 awarded the Snell Scholarship, and an M.A. in Economics from the University of Glasgow.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword, Albert Muchanga; Introduction: bringing about inclusive trade in
Africa with the African Continental Free Trade Area, David Luke and Jamie
MacLeod; Chapter 1: Making the case for the African Continental Free Trade
Area, David Luke; Part I: Lessons learned from regional integration in
Africa and beyond; Chapter 2: The AfCFTA as yet another experiment towards
continental integration: retrospect and prospect, Guillaume Gerout, Jamie
MacLeod and Melaku Desta; Chapter 3: The failure of the Free Trade Area of
the Americas: a cautionary tale for the African Continental Free Trade
Area, Sebastian Herreros; Chapter 4: ASEAN at 50 and beyond, Mia Mikic and
Weiran Shang; Part II: Implementing a "win-win" AfCFTA; Chapter 5: How
important is special and differential treatment for an inclusive AfCFTA?,
Lilly Sommer and Jamie MacLeod; Chapter 6: AfCFTA, value chains and
overlapping origin regimes: a complementarity assessment along a segment of
the copper value chain in Africa, Guillaume Gerout and Harrison Addo-Obiri
; Chapter 7: Governance for an effective AfCFTA, Babajide Sodipo; Chapter
8: The AfCFTA in a changing trade landscape: rise of the emerging market
economies and the persistence of African export dependency, Jamie MacLeod;
Chapter 9: Regional Aid for Trade in Africa: a catalyst for economic
integration and development, Frans Lammersen, Raffaela Muoio and Michael
Roberts; Part III: Preparing for the AfCFTA phase II negotiations; Chapter
10: Approaching competition policy in the AfCFTA, Elizabeth Gachuiri;
Chapter 11: A principled approach to intellectual property rights and
innovation in the African Continental Free Trade Agreement, Caroline Ncube,
Tobias Schonwetter, Jeremy De Beer and Chidi Oguamanam