The implications of the African continental free trade area on existing regional economic communities in Africa
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Date
2023
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
Countries world over are employing different strategies to grow their economies and
improve the living standards of their people. Among the initiatives being employed is
regional economic integration. Regional economic integration is seen as a pathway to
ensure easier access to bigger markets and increased levels of trade resulting in
higher economic growth.1 Africa is not an exception to the foregoing. Indeed, Africa
has since the early years of independence in the 1960s been pursuing the regional
integration agenda. Independent Africa perceived increased trade through regionalism
as the universal remedy for the twin problems of slow rates of economic growth and
alleviation of poverty on the continent.
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Magister Legum - LLM
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African Union (AU), Southern African Development Community (SADC), Labour law, Trade, Africa