Given its abundant natural resources and accelerating consumer-driven growth, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has much to offer investors and traders. Yet SSA remains weakly integrated into global and regional value chains due to, among other things,…
The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is the first Multilateral trade agreement to cover trade in services. Its creation was one of the major achievements of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations from 1986 to 1993, whose results became…
We have witnessed the resurgence of regional development in terms of regional economic integration groupings at the global level over the past decades. The fundamental objectives for the formation of these sub regional and regional integration…
Foreign direct investment is believed to promote exports of host countries by augmenting domestic capital for exports, helping transfer technology and new products for exports. It also facilitates access to new and large foreign markets, provides…
Trade in agricultural commodities has enormous variations in terms of impacts – be they on poverty, gender or the environment. This underlines the significance of careful analysis in the choice of trade development path for the sector and calls for…