African Trade Policy Centre

Focus on human capital and improve science and technology, regional integration report advises

Addis Ababa, 02 April 2016 (ECA) – To foster an inclusive and sustainable economic growth and development, most African countries agree that regional integration is a goal to which they should aspire.

The report Assessing Regional Integration in Africa VII: Innovation, Competitiveness and Regional Integration (ARIA VII) launched on Saturday 2 April during the African Development Week provides fascinating insights on how regional integration can foster innovation and competition in African countries.

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Assessing Regional Integration in Africa VII

Assessing Regional Integration in Africa (ARIA) VII examines how the three elements of regional integration, innovation and competitiveness are interlinked. It explores the prospects for harnessing them within the framework of Africa’s normative regional integration development model oriented to foster structural change. The report aims to shed light on innovation and competitiveness in the broader context of development policy and strategy in Africa.

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Getting the Continental Free Trade Area Negotiations Underway

 

Negotiators Adopt Procedural Rules for the Trade Negotiating Forum

Addis Ababa, 3 March 2016 (ECA) - It is imperative that African negotiators remain on course as they push for a single market for goods and services, removing tariff and non-tariff barriers to intra-African trade and paving the way for increasing levels of investment in Africa, says African Trade Policy Center (ATPC) Coordinator, Mr. David Luke.

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Civil society urged to scrutinise Africa’s Continental Free Trade Area negotiations

Accra, Ghana, 29 February 2016 (ECA)- Establishing a continental free trade area will allow African countries an opportunity to change the structure of their trade and civil society has a role in ensuring transparent and inclusive negotiations and implementation of the agreement. Speaking at the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) – Third World Network (TWN) Colloquium on the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA), Mr.

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The African Trade Policy Centre Launches Third Cycle with a Focused Resource Mobilization Strategy for 2016

Addis Ababa, 10 February 2016 (ECA) - The Steering Committee overseeing the activities of the African Trade Policy Centre, under its third programme cycle (ATPC III, 2016-19), met in Abidjan to review the outcomes of ATPC II; approve the Centre’s work programme and budget for 2016; and formally launch ATPC III.

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