Will exposure to world agricultural prices generate more poverty or less? To what extent will households be affected by changes in agricultural trade polices? Do multilateral agricultural liberalization matter more than ...

Since the Uruguay Round, African countries have been concerned about the rules and operations of the multilateral trading system and are beginning to realize that they have to be active in the negotiation process to protect ...

In this paper, an attempt is made to assess whether Africa is likely to benefit from the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) non-agricultural market access (NAMA) negotiations. We propose a comparison between the African Trade ...

Africa is endowed with almost all the minerals in the world today, accounting for about 59 per cent of the world’s platinum; 62 per cent of its aluminium silicate; more than 50 per cent of all vanadiumites and vermiculites; ...