Trade between African nations crucial for integration, says ECA's upcoming report
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How much African countries trade with each other is crucial to the integration and development of the continent, a draft report to be published jointly by United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), African Union Commission (AUC) and African Development (AfDB) states. There is a great potential in intra-African trade. Why is the continent not able to achieve this potential? This fourth edition of ARIA focuses on intra-African trade, looking into the reasons that countries on the continent are so poor at trading with one another. The statistics on intra-African trade in comparison with other regions are sobering, with only a mere 10 percent of African countries trading with each other. In comparison, 40 percent of trade from North America is done with other North American countries. That figure rises to 63 percent when looking at trade between European Union countries.
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“United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa. (2010-03). Trade between African nations crucial for integration, says ECA's upcoming report. Addis Ababa:. © UN. ECA,. https://hdl.handle.net/10855/33166”Collections
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