Jaime de Melo Outline A Primer on the theory of Regional Integration confronted to 20 th and 21 st Centuries The challenge of integration in Africa along the Regional Economic Communities RECs ID: 791555
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Regional Integration in Africa: Where do we Stand?
Jaime de Melo
Slide2Outline
A Primer on the theory of Regional Integration confronted to 20
th
and 21
st
Centuries
The challenge of integration in Africa along the Regional Economic Communities (RECs)
A first look at overly ambitious RECs
The landscape along the Abuja Roadmap:
Economic and geography characteristics
Cultural and institutional
Correlates of bilateral Trade in Manufactures
The Africa Continental Free Trade Area (2018) and the triangle of
incompat
Detecting the Effects of integration:
Trade-intensity indices
Gravity-calibrated trade costs
Building the RECs: Depth vs- breadth
Towards a provision of regional public goods
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Tsikata
(2015) “Regional Integration in Africa: Challenges and Prospects” in C.
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and J. Lin eds.
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Industrializing Africa without Smokestacks
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/
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chp
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[6]
EU Trade Deals with Developing Nations: Missed Opportunities
http://www.voxeu.org/article/eu-trade-deals-developing-nations-missed-opportunities
[1] Byers, Melo and Brown (2018) “Working with the Grain of African Integration” (
https
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/
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integration arrangements in Africa: Is a large membership the way forward?
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/
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