Strategies for revitalization, recovery and growth of Africa's trade in the 1990's and beyond

Abstract

These strategies contain practical and imaginative policy instruments and measures for domestic, intra-African and international trade that must be implemented to reverse this situation and is built on the recognition that the contribution of the trade sector to growth in the process of structural adjustment, socioeconomic transformation and recovery and prospects for economic integration of the continent have to be clearly defined to link trade with changes in production, industry and infrastructure as well as the supply of factor inputs to increase the availability of goods and services. These strategies highlight the priority which African Governments accord to the development and expansion of trade and are presented in several parts as follows: main objectives of the A.t lean trade strategies; strategy for enhancing domestic trade; new framework for intra-African trade expansion; revitalizing the external trade sector; enhancing the raise of women in trade; creating the enabling environment for private sector participation in trade; strategy for trade financing; mechanisms for implementation, monitoring and follow-up.