Regional Trade Arrangements in Africa: Past Performance and the Way Forward

By S. Gupta, Yongzheng Yang. Social Science Research Network, 2005

192 citations recorded by the source corpus.

In recent years, African policymakers have increasingly resorted to regional trade arrangements (RTAs) as a substitute for broad-based trade liberalization. This trend has long-term implications for the effectiveness of trade policy as a tool for poverty reduction and growth. "Regional Trade Arrangements in Africa" examines the record of RTAs in promoting trade and investment. It also explores policy measures that may help improve the RTAs' performance.

Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics, Finance

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f92ac7da8228668b8be0141272bc1a570b9e5999

Citations in the corpus

• The African Continental Free Trade Area (2020, unknown): “Several studies (Hailu 2014; Yang and Gupta 2005; de Melo and Tsikata 2015) have identified key factors that have influenced the effectiveness of these arrangements.”
• North-South Standards Harmonization and International Trade (2013, unknown): “This result is not very surprising since many South-South EIAs have not proved very effective in promoting trade between members (see e.g. Yang and Gupta, 2005, for Africa or Baldwin, 2008, for Asia).”