The Long Road to cooperation and integration across Africa

Jaime de Melo ()
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Jaime de Melo: UNIGE - Université de Genève = University of Geneva, FERDI - Fondation pour les Etudes et Recherches sur le Développement International

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Abstract: Ever since their independence, African countries have engaged in a series of treaties creating 8 Regional Economic Communities (RECs) that were (and still are) to pilot this integration starting with a Free Trade Area (FTA) followed by a customs union, a common market, and a monetary union following a ‘variable geometry', along a ‘Minimum Integration Program' at different speeds. This introductory chapter summarizes takeaways from the essays collected in the booklet Essays on Africa's Integration: Prospects and Challenges for Markets and Regional Public Goods.

Keywords: Regional; integration; -; West; Africa; -; ECOWAS; -; WAEMU; -; Trade; negociations; -; Common; trade; policy; -; External; common; representation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-08-04
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