A first important step has been taken towards the establishment of an Economic Community of West Africa. The signature of the Articles, of Association in the context of the successive conferences of Niamey, Lagos and Accra ...

This brief note highlights the contribution of chambers of commerce and industry 1/ can make in promoting Africa's trade, especially trade with other regions from the South. The note is presented in three chapters. In ...

The Technical Committee Meeting of the First Conference of African Ministers responsible for Trade, Regional Cooperation, Integration and Tourism was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from to 13 February, 1996. The meeting was ...

The purpose of this report is to consider the prospects for expanding trade and economic relations among developing countries. After outlining the major trends in South-South trade, the main obstacles to the development ...

This document contains information on the Prospects for expanding Intra-African trade through planning of production on sub-regional basis, of the Technical Meeting of Experts of the Twelfth Session of the Conference of ...

This study falls in line with the ECA objective of assisting member States with their development efforts. In fact, it aims at setting up the major mechanisms for enabling African countries to stabilize their export revenues ...

This document contains information on the Programme of technical cooperation under the United Nations trust fund for African development (UNTFAD), of the Fourteenth meeting of the Technical Preparatory Committee of ...

This document contains information on Enhancing the role of women in domestic trade, of the Technical Meeting of Experts of the Twelfth Session of the Conference of African Ministers of Trade, held in Tunis, Tunisia, from ...

This paper examines the various factors that contributed to Africa's loss of competitiveness and evaluate the potential for future export growth in light of recent developments in the Uruguay round of multilateral trade ...