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The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Rules of Origin (RoOs) determine the conditions for the application of the Agreement's tariff preferences. The effectiveness of existing preferential trade agreements within the continent is undermined by heterogeneous RoO regimes and costly trade...
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The impact of trade liberalization on Malawi's economy has been a hotly debated topic, To shed light on the subject, a study was conducted using the PEP-1-1 CGE model and the latest Malawi's Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) from 2019, The results were eye-opening, revealing the potential effects...
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. However, no study has explored the nexus between trade liberalization, external debt, and income inequality in Africa … alleviation and income inequality reduction in Africa. The results further show that growth in per capita income exerts a widening … effect on income inequality in Africa, implying that income is concentrated in the hands of only a few as the economies grow …
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economic landscapes. Given the persistent challenges faced by Africa's least FDI-receiving countries, it is essential to focus … Africa's least FDI-receiving countries. It explores the dynamics influencing FDI inflows, particularly emphasizing the role … investors seeking stable and profitable opportunities in Africa's diverse economic landscape, bridging the gap between local …
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positive net effects on total factor productivity (TFP) dynamics. Twenty‑five countries in Sub‑Saharan Africa and data for the …
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the World Trade Organization (WTO), but have also sharply reduced their tariff policy space within Africa, thus leaving …
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for setting Africa on the path toward structural transformation and sustainable development. After evaluating the part … Commission for Africa's ongoing support to implementation, building on the support the commission has historically provided to … regional and continental integration in Africa. …
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the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s. It has since grown into Africa's foremost regional integration bank, and is …
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Although trade liberalization is being actively promoted as a key component in development strategies, theoretically, the impact of trade openness on poverty reduction is ambiguous. A more liberalized trade regime is argued to change relative factor prices in favor of the more abundant factor....
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The study empirically examines the employment generation potentials of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in Nigeria's industrial sector. The ARDL approach to cointegration and error correction modeling is employed for analysis of annual time series data covering the period...
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