01247nam0 2200325 450 00002128820080909122045.0900413018720080411d2003----km-y0itaa50------bagergrcNLJoseph und Asenethkritisch herausgegeben von Christoph Buchardmit unterstützung von Carsten Burfeind und Uta Barbara FinkLeidenBostonBrill2003384 p.25 cmPseudepigrapha Veteris Testamenti graece52001Pseudepigrapha Veteris Testamenti graece5BibbiaVecchio testamentoApocrifi229.911(21. ed.)Apocrifi, opere intertestamentarie. Libri storiciBurchard,Christoph443657Burfeind,CarstenFink,Uta BarbaraITUniversità della Basilicata - B.I.A.RICAunimarc000021288Joseph und Aseneth89083UNIBASLETTERESTD0610120080411BAS011117MDL3020080909BAS011220BAS01BAS01BOOKBASA1Polo Storico-UmanisticoDSLFCollezione DiSLFDF/71997199F71992008041104Prestabile Didattica03938nam 22005415 450 991086526850332120240614125227.09783031591815(electronic bk.)978303159180810.1007/978-3-031-59181-5(MiAaPQ)EBC31479191(Au-PeEL)EBL31479191(CKB)32291994300041(DE-He213)978-3-031-59181-5(EXLCZ)993229199430004120240614d2024 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe African Continental Free Trade Area Prospects, Problems and Challenges /by Benjamin Ofori-Amoah1st ed. 2024.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2024.1 online resource (221 pages)Print version: Ofori-Amoah, Benjamin The African Continental Free Trade Area Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2024 9783031591808 Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Perspectives on International Trade and Development -- Chapter 2. Regional Trade Agreements: Theory, Aspirations, and Realities -- Chapter 3. The Economic Community of West African States -- Chapter 4. The Economic Community of Central African States -- Chapter 6. The Southern African Development Community -- Chapter 7. The Community of Sahel-Saharan States -- Chapter 8. The East African Community -- Chapter 9. The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa -- Chapter 10. Other Regional Trade Agreements -- Chapter 11. Conclusion.In March of 2018, 44 African countries signed the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement (AfCFTA) to launch what is considered as the largest free trade area in the world. The signing of the agreement has been hailed as a major breakthrough for African development by African countries and organizations as well as external observers of African affairs. This is not the first time African countries have proposed a new organizational and institutional structure for development. African countries have signed at least 13 regional trade agreements (RTAs) for intraregional trade since 1959. However, the track record of these groups has been relatively mediocre compared to RTAs elsewhere. Thus, Africa has the lowest percentage of intracontinental trade in the world. This volume evaluates the prospects and challenges for the AfCFTA through a deep-dive assessment of previous trade blocs on the African continent and of regional free trade areas in other parts of the world. The central question of the book is this: If pre-AfCFTA trade blocs in Africa did not encourage more intracontinental trade, what guarantees that the AfCTA will? The formation of the AfCFTA will definitely remove overlapping membership that existed with previous trading blocs on the continent, but what is different about the AfCFTA that will get rid of cumbersome regulation, boost manufacturing, and create jobs? This book argues that the dreams of AfCFTA will not be realized unless African countries make efforts to address the industry mix of their economies and to enforce the rules and regulations they set down on paper.Economic geographyAfricaEconomic conditionsEconomic policyEconomic GeographyAfrican EconomicsEconomic PolicyEconomic geography.AfricaEconomic conditions.Economic policy.Economic Geography.African Economics.Economic Policy.330.9Ofori-Amoah Benjamin1742833MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910865268503321The African Continental Free Trade Area4169553UNINA