This paper assesses South Africa’s strategic role in advancing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and evaluates how it can optimise the agreement’s benefits for continental integration. Although South Africa was instrumental in shaping…
This book tackles one of Africa’s most pressing questions: how to translate the promise of continental integration into measurable economic outcomes. Using the TRADE-DSM (Decision Support Model) alongside product space methodology, the book…
This book is the third volume in a forward-looking series on the future of international trade and development, and it addresses one of the most pressing questions confronting Africa today: How to convert continental integration from political…
A major shift has been observed recently in the transport industry due in no small part to the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this paper was to determine the changes that occurred on the cargo transport market during that period. In order to…
This article investigates the impact of Government’s response measures to new COVID-19 cases. This is proxied by a stringency index of 50 countries from April 2020 to March 2022. Our World in Data COVID-19 dataset was utilised employing several…
AbstractDespite its rich endowments of natural resources, the Cameroonian economy remains undiversified and vulnerable to exogenous shocks as an exporter of unprocessed primary products. With the ratification of the African Continental Free Trade…