The ethics of African regional and continental integration

Dirk Kohnert

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Abstract: The decision of African leaders on the creation of an African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in 2018 was not merely a political decision with economic implications. It has significant and complex ethical dimensions too. This, not only concerning a possible trade-off between economic growth and well-being, employment, the depletion of natural resources and related ecological and gender problems. AfCFTA will also impact on growing xenophobia, nationalism and populism, the likely outcome of growing capital and labour mobility

Keywords: AfCFTA; Regional integration; ethics; international trade; protectionism; nationalism; xenphobia; African Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 F15 F22 F35 F52 F54 N17 N37 N97 O2 O55 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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