Author:yasmine-wilson

Free trade and flourishing economies?

A continent-wide free trade area for Africa can only be a good thing – if the governments of the continent can focus on the long-term benefits The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement, signed by 44 African countries in Rwanda during March 2018 and ratified by 22 countries by April 2019, is expected to create the largest free trade area in Africa, and create a continental customs union. Africa accounts for less than three percent of global trade and […]

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