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Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area
(2020-03)
This document contains the original text of the Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) translated into Amharic, the working language of the Federal Government of Ethiopia. The UNECA has ...
The AfCFTA country business index(ACBI) report : summary report for Angola, Cote D'Ivoire, Gabon, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, and South Africa
(2022-04)
The Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area officially became operational in 2021, making it the cornerstone of trade integration in Africa. The objectives of the Area are to create a single, ...
Report strengthening informal cross-border trade data collection in the economic community of West African states region
(2020-11)
The present report was informed by interviews conducted electronically with experts in relevant fields (a list of the experts contacted can be found in the annex). Of the 27 experts targeted, 22 (81.5 per cent) were ...
Experts meet to review a study on Negotiating Institutions: Putting in the Right Foundations in Central Africa
(2020-10)
The African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) hosted the second of a series of five virtual expert group meetings on innovative research into preferential trade arrangements ...
Prioritizing health and education in the first round of negotiations for services liberalization within the African Continental Free Trade Area
(2020-10)
The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to continue into the foreseeable future, until reliable therapies and vaccines are identified. The Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area, which entered into force ...
PIDA Progress report : 2019/2020
(2020-12)
Infrastructure is a bedrock for development in Africa. Sound infrastructure is a major contributor to economic growth, poverty reduction and attainment of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) adopted by all United ...
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and migrant remittances: Protecting an economic lifeline
(2020-09)
Remittances constitute a global lifeline for people across the planet, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Their importance has even exceeded that of foreign aid, private capital flows and foreign direct ...
Utilisation des zones d’échanges préférentiels en Afrique : Dans le cadre du projet "Renforcement des capacités pour des accords commerciaux africains inclusifs et équitables" (FED/2019/405-346)
(2020-11)
Le présent rapport expose les résultats de recherches visant à déterminer le degré d’utilisation des préférences en matière d’accords commerciaux par les pays africains. Dans ce contexte, l’« utilisation des préférences » ...
Utilization of preferential trade areas in Africa : under the project “Capacity-building for inclusive and equitable African trade arrangements” (FED/2019/405-346)
(2020-11)
The present report sets out the findings of research to determine the extent of utilization of trade arrangements preferences by African countries. In this context, “preference utilization” refers to the extent to which ...
Africa trade and covid-19: the supply chain dimension
(2020-08)
The economic crisis generated by the Covid 19 pandemic is likely to be the deepest since records began. The International Monetary Fund projects a fall in global gross domestic product of 3% and the World Trade Organization ...