[PDF] Africa Regional Cooperation And The World Market eBook

Author : Michael Brüntrup
Publisher : Nordic Africa Inst
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 24,2 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789171065599

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Under the regime of the World Trade Organization, local and regional policies are increasingly determined by global factors. One example is the New Partnership for Africa's Development. It stresses an earlier notion of African Renaissance, which includes the emphasis on collective self-reliance, but at the same time seeks closer cooperation with the global trade system and its international agencies. Bi- and multilateral trade relations between external actors and individual African states or regional blocs are becoming ever more decisive. This is also true of the more recently negotiated Economic Partnership Agreements in the post-Lomé era of EU-African relations. In light of such trends the question of coherence between â__trade as aidâ__ and other areas of development strategy and cooperation remains to be answered. The contributions to this Discussion Paper reflect upon related matters of socio-economically viable strategies seeking to reconcile the global and the regional in an African perspective. They were originally presented to the Panel â__Regional Cooperation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Between Collective Self-Reliance and Global Trade Regimesâ__ organized by the Nordic Africa Institute within the 11th General Conference of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes in September 2005 in Bonn. This publication is useful for economists, political scientists, policy makers and other professionals dealing with Africa in development assistance and in trade.

Author : Ulrich Koester
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,65 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896290532

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The cooperation approach of the SADCC countries; Other regional cooperation schemes; Regional market integration and food security; Alternative regional cooperation arrangements to stabilize food consumption.

Author : S.K.B. Asante
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 20,71 MB
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1349257796

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A critical appraisal of regionalism as a key strategy in Africa's development explaining the failures thus far of attempts at regional integration on the continent. This is the first text to highlight the main features of the new post-1990 regional initiatives such as the all-embracing African Economic Community and World Bank, IMF, African Development Bank, EC and French initiatives and the challenges to Africa from trading blocs elsewhere in the post-Uruguay Round environment.

Author : Jens Haarløv
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 28,17 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN :

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Regional cooperation and integration within industry and trade in Southern Africa is analysed in relation to three central elements: general approaches, South African Development Coordination Conference and the World Bank.

Author : Daniel H. Levine
Publisher : Springer
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 47,73 MB
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137586117

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This landmark book is the first of its kind to assess the challenges of African region-building and regional integration across all five African sub-regions and more than five decades of experience, considering both political and economic aspects. Leading scholars and practitioners come together to analyze a range of entwined topics, including: the theoretical underpinnings that have informed Africa's regional integration trajectory; the political economy of integration, including the sources of different 'waves' of integration in pan-Africanism and the reaction to neo-liberal economic pressures; the complexities of integration in a context of weak states and the informal regionalization that often occurs in 'borderlands'; the increasing salience of Africa's relationships with rising extra-regional economic powers, including China and India; and comparative lessons from non-African regional blocs, including the EU, ASEAN, and the Southern Common Market. A core argument of this book, running through all chapters, is that region-building must be recognized as a political project as much as if not more than an economic one; successful region-building in Africa will need to include the complex political tasks of strengthening state capacity (including states' capacity as 'developmental states' that can actively engage in economic planning), resolving long-standing conflicts over resources and political dominance, improving democratic governance, and developing trans-national political structures that are legitimate and inclusive.

Author : Achim Gutowski
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 19,60 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3643905238

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Based on Africa's deep routed structural problems, the key aspect of a transformative regional integration is how to promote structural transformation by adapted strategies and policies for the African regional economic communities, for the Continental Free Trade Area, and for the Tripartite Free Trade Area. Regional integration in Africa is based on a conventional (linear) model, starting with trade preference zones and moving to free trade areas, customs unions, and monetary and economic zones, with the ultimate goal to reach political unity. Specific problems of a more transformative regional integration agenda are discussed, such as: ?food security and agriculture; industry development, enterprise growth and competition; and economic partnership agreements with extra-regional partners. In the final section, the impact of three global value chains of importance for Africa (diamonds, shea butter, and sesame) are considered on regions, on sub-regions, and on regional integration. (Series: African Development Perspectives Yearbook, Vol. 18) [Subject: African Studies, Economics

Author : Réal P. Lavergne
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 25,3 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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This book contains a collection of papers that examine the failure of regional integration and co-operation to date in west Africa and that explore some of the options for the revitalization of such initiatives. The papers are arranged in three categories: strategic visions and prospects for regional integration and co-operation; economic perspectives; and political dimensions. Specific topics include the role of the Economic Community of West African States; theoretical models and approaches to regional integration; the role of community building in regional integration; partnerships for innovation; national policies as impediments to economic integration; parallel trade as a form of economic subversion; lessons from the West African Monetary Union; human rights and integration; the regional dimension of environmental management; and power sharing at the regional level.

Author : Domenico Mazzeo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 19,58 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521262461

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Essays examine security, political, financial, and economic organizations in Africa, and discuss the problems and prospects of each group.

Author : Florian Bankoley
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 2010-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3640676874

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Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: A, ESCP Europe, language: English, abstract: Development in Africa has been an issue for many years now. Since the independence of most of the states in the 1960's, the western countries have tried to help the so- called third world countries to develop their economies and thus to lift their population out of poverty. The efforts were conducted through direct intervention or through the non-governmental organisation like the IMF or the UN. Despite decades of commitment and billion dollar efforts, most of Africa remains in a poor status with nearly half of its population living on less than one dollar per day. Since its independence regional frameworks have existed but only obtained little attention from international as well as from national side. But with the failure of most programmes and the ever growing stronger trend to regional trade agreements throughout the whole world, the frameworks in Africa have moved in the centre of attention. International organisations promote the further integration of these; national governments put the frameworks on the top of their agendas. The aim of this project is to show the possible influence of regional cooperation frameworks in the development process of the countries in the West-African region. The analysis was focused on two existent regional frameworks, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). During the analysis, the nature of the ECOWAS and the WAEMU is to be identified as well as possible differences in their approach of the regional development. The question that will be asked are how the influence of the unions exactly looks like, which effects this has on the members, how the unions evolved over the time and how they plan to develop in the future.

Author : K. Kimbugwe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 17,51 MB
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0230369928

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Post-colonial Africa is littered with regional trade agreements that amounted to little more than a photo opportunity for the leaders that signed them. This book explores conventional explanations for past failures and posits a new theory rooted in the symbiotic relationship between authoritarian politics and crony-capitalism.