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Working Paper 77 - Enhancing Africa’s Trade: From Marginalization to an Export - Led Approach to Development

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This paper reviews Africa’s role in the global trading system and discusses theconstraints and options for Africa to move from its current marginalization to an exportledapproach to economic development. It discusses the impact of regional economicintegration on intra-African trade, reviews the WTO regime, analyses the internal andexternal constraints to African trade, including the controversy over Western agriculturalsubsidies and tariff and non-tariff barriers to African trade in Western markets. It thendiscusses new approaches to trade development in Africa with special emphasis on therole of export processing zones and concludes that there is urgent need for Africa todiversify its exports through a systematic structural transformation.

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  • Milton A. Iyoba, 2005. "Working Paper 77 - Enhancing Africa’s Trade: From Marginalization to an Export - Led Approach to Development," Working Paper Series 212, African Development Bank.
    • Handle: RePEc:adb:adbwps:212
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    1. Bernhard G. Gunter & Britni Wilcher, 2020. "Three decades of globalisation: Which countries won, which lost?," The World Economy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 43(4), pages 1076-1102, April.
    2. Mugume, Regean & Nattabi, Kibirige Aida, 2021. "The potential Trade effects of Democratic Republic of Congo Joining the East African Community bloc," African Journal of Economic Review, African Journal of Economic Review, vol. 9(4), September.

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