Regional Integration in Africa: Current Status and Challenges
This comprehensive overview discusses the state of regional integration in Africa, focusing on the Regional Economic Communities (RECs), the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), trade intensity indices, and the balance between depth and breadth in building the RECs. Challenges and prospects for integration are explored alongside references to key literature and policy briefs.
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Regional Integration in Africa: Where do we Stand? Jaime de Melo
Outline A Primer on the theory of Regional Integration confronted to 20th and 21st Centuries The challenge of integration in Africa along the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) A first look at overly ambitious RECs The landscape along the Abuja Roadmap: Economic and geography characteristics Cultural and institutional Correlates of bilateral Trade in Manufactures The Africa Continental Free Trade Area (2018) and the triangle of incompat Detecting the Effects of integration: Trade-intensity indices Gravity-calibrated trade costs Building the RECs: Depth vs- breadth Towards a provision of regional public goods
References (1) References (1) [3] Sapir, A. (2011) European Integration at the Crossroads: A Review Essay on the 50th Anniversary of Bela Balassa's Theory of Economic Integration , Journal of Economic Literature, 49(4), 1200-1299 [3] Melo, Panagariya and Rodrik (1992) The New Regionalism: A Country Perspective , http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/404321468741002634/pdf/multi0page.pdf [1] Melo, Jaime de, and Yvonne Tsikata (2015) Regional Integration in Africa: Challenges and Prospects in C. Monga and J. Lin eds. The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Oxford University Press and FERDI-WPI#93 [2] Melo, Jaime de, Mariem Nouar, and Jean-Marc Solleder (2017) Integration Along the Abuja Road Map , FERDI WP# 191, forthcoming in Newfarmer, Page, and Tarp eds. Industrializing Africa without Smokestacks, Oxford, Oxford University Press. Summary here https://www.ictsd.org/bridges-news/bridges-africa/news/a-fresh-look-at-africa%E2%80%99s-integration-in-regional-economic [5] Will West Africa s Common External Tariff Protect Consumers? http://www.theigc.org/blog/will-west-africas-common-external-tariff-protect-consumers/ Africa Economic Outlook 2019 Integration for Africa s Economic Prosperity , chp. 3 of AEO 2019
References (2) References (2) [6] EU Trade Deals with Developing Nations: Missed Opportunities http://www.voxeu.org/article/eu-trade-deals-developing-nations-missed-opportunities [1] Byers, Melo and Brown (2018) Working with the Grain of African Integration (https://ecdpm.org/publications/working-with-the- grain-of-african-integration/), Policy Brief [3] Regional integration arrangements in Africa: Is a large membership the way forward? http://www.ictsd.org/bridges-news/bridges-africa/news/regional-integration-arrangements-in-africa-is-a-large-membership [3] Make Preferential Treatment Real for Africa: Relax Rules of Origin http://blogs.worldbank.org/trade/make-preferential-treatment-real-for-africa-relax-rules-of-origin [4] Regional trade Agreements in Africa: Success or failure? http://www.theigc.org/blog/regional-trade-agreements-in-africa-success-or-failure/ [4] The African Continental Free Trade Area: An Integration Trilemma https://theforum.erf.org.eg/2019/01/28/african-continental-free-trade-area-integration-trilemma/
