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Towards a Free Trade Area for the Global South

... significantly. Most of the South countries would experience rise in export to other South countries”. One of the possible guides in this respect may be the progression of the AfCFTA project – according to the estimates of the World Bank , “by 2035 the AfCFTA is set to lift 30 million Africans out of extreme poverty and 68 million from moderate poverty”. A more recent study by the World Bank finds that “under deep integration, Africa’s exports to the rest of the world could rise by 32% by 2035, while intra-African exports could ...

30.08.2022

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Fighting the Trend: How Africa is Uniting Amidst the Global Retreat from Multilateralism

... Brookings Institution , African nations easing trade barriers regionally would allow for third parties to enter the African market via one country. He added that this would be made possible by successful negotiations and the proper implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA). The Agreement entered into force on May 30, 2019 after its 22nd ratification, signaling the start of a long and tedious negotiation process that will largely determine the nature and exact conditions of the agreement. Schedules of tariff concessions ...

12.07.2019

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