Date: 2017
Type: Working Paper
Integrating Africa : some trade policy research priorities and challenges
Working Paper, EUI RSCAS, 2017/43, Global Governance Programme-277, Global Economics
HOEKMAN, Bernard M., NJINKEU, Dominique, Integrating Africa : some trade policy research priorities and challenges, EUI RSCAS, 2017/43, Global Governance Programme-277, Global Economics - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/47804
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This paper discusses opportunities for trade policy research to contribute more to efforts to integrate African markets, a stated policy priority for African leaders. Much of the economic research in this area has sought to quantify aggregate trade costs and the potential welfare impacts of reducing such costs, including through regional integration. This is important, but we argue that more focus is needed on the ‘micro’ dimensions of regional integration. These center on the trade-restricting effects of nontariff measures and regulatory policies and their political economy underpinnings. Of particular importance is research on mechanisms to support market integration initiatives that recognize the multidimensional nature of the sources of trade costs in Africa, and the associated political economy forces within and between countries and regional economic communities.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/47804
ISSN: 1028-3625
Series/Number: EUI RSCAS; 2017/43; Global Governance Programme-277; Global Economics