Increasing Intra-African Trade: Can the African Continental Free Trade Area Be the Game Changer?
This book is the third volume in a forward-looking series on the future of international trade and development, and it addresses one of the most pressing questions confronting Africa today: How to convert continental integration from political ambition into sustained, measurable economic outcomes. M...
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