Carleton University has released the newest issue of CFPJ examining Canada, Africa and the inclusive trade agenda. The issue was prepared through a partnership between the African Trade Policy Centre and the Canadian Centre for Trace Policy and Law supported by a grant to the former by Global Affairs Canada.
The issue focuses on Canada-Africa trade and the Liberal inclusive trade agenda. The guest editors are David Luke, coordinator of the African Trade Policy Centre, UN Economic Commission for Africa, and Phil Rourke, director of the Centre for Trade Policy and Law at Carleton University.
Luke says that “among G7 countries, Canada has been a late comer in reevaluating the potential of Africa’s emerging economies. The recent sprinkling of a handful of commercial officers throughout the continent is a helpful start. But mining still accounts for much of Canada’s economic footprint in Africa. With continental GDP at US$2.5 trillion, population at 1.2 billion and several of the world’s fastest growing economies, market integration in Africa through the African Continental Free Trade Area provides Canada with trade and investment opportunities in non-traditional sectors.”
Rourke adds that articles in this issue “help define what is meant by an inclusive and progressive trade agenda and why Africa might be the best place to start putting it into practice for the mutual benefit of both Canada and its African partners.”
Download full article on https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/11926422.2019.1657921 and much more CFPJ articles on the journal’s website: www.iaffairscanada.com.