The political economy of the African Continental Free Trade Area and structural transformation in Africa

References

• Adedeji, Adebayo. 2012. “The Travails of Regional Integration in Africa.” In The EU and Africa: From EUAfrique to Afro-Europa, edited by A. in Adebajo, and K. Whiteman, 83–104. Johannesburg: Wits University Press.
   Google Scholar
• African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat (AfCFTA). 2022. “AfCFTA: 8 African Countries Kick-start Free Trade with 96 Products.” Accessed October 31, 2022. https://au-afcfta.org/2022/10/afcfta-8-african-countries-kick-start-free-trade-with-96-products/.
   Google Scholar
• African Development Bank (AfDB). 2017. African Economic Outlook, Entrepreneurship and Industrialisation. Tunisa: African Development Bank.
   Google Scholar
• Africa Economic Outlook. 2017. Tunisia: Africa Development Bank.
   Google Scholar
• Ake, Claude. 1981. The Political Economy of Africa. Harlow, Essex: Longman.
   Google Scholar
• Bhagwati, Jagdish. 2004. In Defense of Globalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Bhorat, H., R. Kanbur, C. Rooney, and F. Steenkamp. 2017. “Sub-Saharan Africa’s Manufacturing Sector: Building Complexity.” Working Paper Series No. 256. Abidjan: African Development Bank.
   Google Scholar
• Chang, Haa-Joon. 2004. Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective. London: Random House.
   Google Scholar
• Chang, Haa-Joon. 2007. Bad Samaritans, Rich Nations, Poor Policies, and the Threat to the Developing World. London: Random House.
   Google Scholar
• Draper, Peter. 2010. “Rethinking the (European) Foundations of sub-Saharan African Regional Economic Integration: A Political Economy Essay.” Working Paper No. 293. Paris: OECD.
   Google Scholar
• Draper, Peter. 2012. “Breaking Free from Europe: Why Africa Needs Another Model of Regional Integration.” The International Spectator 47 (1): 67–82. doi:10.1080/03932729.2012.655008.
   Google Scholar
• ECA. 2013. “Assessing Regional Integration in Africa V1.” Addis Ababa: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.
   Google Scholar
• Elumelu, Tony. 2019. “What Is Africapitalism?” The Tony Elumelu Foundation, June 24. Accessed March 22, 2019. https://tonyelumelufoundation.org/africapitalisminstitute/about-us/what-is-africapitalism/.
   Google Scholar
• ‘Foyeku Shulammite. 2018. “MAN Counsels Government on Continental Free Trade Agreement.” Ships & Ports, November 6. Accessed March 22, 2019. http://shipsandports.com.ng/man-counsels-government-continental-free-trade-agreement/.
   Google Scholar
• Gibb, Richard. 2009. “Regional Integration and Africa's Development Trajectory: Meta-Theories, Expectations and Reality.” Third World Quarterly 30 (21): 701–721. doi:10.1080/01436590902867136.
   Google Scholar
• Gong, Xiaoming. 2015. “African Economic Structural Transformation: A Diagnostic Analysis.” Journal of Africa Transformation 1 (1): 1–22. https://hdl.handle.net/10855/23252.
   Google Scholar
• Harvey, David. 2007. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Iheduru, Okechukwu. 2012. “Regional Integration and the Private Authority of Banks in West Africa.” International Studies Review 14 (2): 273–302. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2486.2012.01112.x.
   Google Scholar
• Lennep, Tove. 2019. “The African Continental Free Trade Area III – Is Africa ready?” Accessed March 19, 2019. https://hsf.org.za/publications/hsf-briefs/the-african-continental-free-trade-area-iii-2013-is-africa-ready.
   Google Scholar
• Leshoele, Moorosi. 2020. “AfCFTA and Regional Integration in Africa: Is African Union Government a Dream Deferred or Denied?” Journal of Contemporary African Studies. Advance online publication. doi:10.1080/02589001.2020.1795091.
   Google Scholar
• Luke, David, and Phil. Rourke. 2017. “Canada’s Progressive Trade Agenda Starts in Africa.” Accessed June 3, 2017. http://www.uneca.org/stories/canada%E2%80%99s-progressive-trade-agenda-starts-africa.
   Google Scholar
• Milner, Helen, and Keiko. Kubota. 2005. “Why the Move to Free Trade? Democracy and Trade Policy in the Developing Countries.” International Organization 59 (1): 107–143.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mkandawire, Thandika, and Charles. Soludo. 1999. Our Continent, Our Future: African Perspectives on Structural Adjustment. Dakar, Senegal: CODESRIA.
   Google Scholar
• Oguh, C. 2017. “Nigerian Banks Need to Rethink their Cross-border Subsidiaries.” Financials, March 13. Accessed August 15, 2017. http://www.financialnigeria.com/nigerian-banks-need-to-rethink-their-cross-border-subsidiaries-blog-231.html.
   Google Scholar
• Oloruntoba, Samuel. 2016a. Regionalism and Integration in Africa: Eu-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements and Euro-Nigeria Relations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/regionalism-and-integration-in-africa-samuel-o-oloruntoba/?isb=9781137568656.
   Google Scholar
• Oloruntoba, Samuel. 2016e. “Democratization and Poverty in Nigeria: Exploring the Link Between Politics and Poverty in Middle Income Countries.” In Poverty & Inequality in Middle Income Countries: Policy Achievements, Political Obstacles, edited by J. May, G. Wright, and E. Breathen, 123–142. London, New York: Zed Books/CROP, University of Bergen, Norway.
   Google Scholar
• Oloruntoba, Samuel, and Solomon. Akinboye. 2015. “Afrocapitalism and Integration in Africa: Bridging the Institutional and Infrastructural Gaps.” Paper presented at the African unity and renaissance conference, university of Johannesburg, May 22–25, 2016.
   Google Scholar
• Oloruntoba, Samuel, and Vusi. Gumede. 2018. “Regional Integration and African Renaissance: Moving Beyond the Rhetoric.” In Africa Rise Up: Perspectives on African Renewal, edited by C. Landsberg, 245–258. Johannesburg: Real Publishers.
   Google Scholar
• Oloruntoba, Samuel., and Christopher Nshimbi. 2017. “If Africa is Serious about a Free Trade Area it Needs to Act Quickly and Differently.” The Conversation, January 9, 2017. Accessed June 3, 2017. https://theconversation.com/us/search?utf8 = %E2%9C%93&q = Samuel+Oloruntoba.
   Google Scholar
• Orumah, Benedict. 2022. “Remarks at the Launch of the Pan-African Payment Settlement Solutions.” Accessed October 31, 2022. https://www.afreximbank.com/pan-african-payment-and-settlement-system-launched-by-president-akufo-addo-foreseeing-5-billion-annual-savings-for-africa/.
   Google Scholar
• Oyeyinka, Oyabanji, and Kaushalesh, Lal. n.d. “Structural Transformation in Developing Countries: Cross National Analysis.” Nairobi: UN Habitat.
   Google Scholar
• Page, John. 2015. “Made in Africa: Some New Thinking for Africa Industrialization Day.” Accessed June 1, 2017. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2015/11/19/made-in-africa-some-new-thinking-for-africa-industrialization-day/.
   Google Scholar
• Page, John. 2016. “Africa's Industrialisation: Reversing the Decline.” Accessed June 3, 2017. https://www.odi.org/events/4319-africa-industrialisation.
   Google Scholar
• Putnam, Robert, Peter Evans, and Harold. Jacobson. 1993. Double-Edged Diplomacy: International Bargaining and Domestic Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press.
   Google Scholar
• Rugumamu, Severine. 2005. Globalization Demystified: Africa Possible Alternative Futures. Dar es Salam: Dar es Salaam University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Sachs, Jeffery, and Andrew. Warners. 1995. “Economic Reforms and the Process of Global Integration.” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Samy, Yagadeseeen, and Samuel Oloruntoba. 2022. Sustainable Development in Post-Pandemic Africa, edited by Fred Olayele, and Samy Yagadeseen. London: Routledge. [AQ49]
   Google Scholar
• Sommer, Lily, and D. Luke. 2019. “Canada’s Progressive Trade Agenda: Engaging with Africa to Support Inclusive Gains under the African Continental Free Trade Area.” Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 25 (3): 241–253. doi:10.1080/11926422.2018.154260.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stiglitz, Joseph. 2002. Globalization and Its Discontents. New York: W.W Norton.
   Google Scholar
• Taylor, Ian. 2014. Africa Rising? BRICS-Diversifying Dependency. Martlesham, New York: James Currey.
   Google Scholar
• Taylor, Ian. 2020. “The Political Economy of Africa.” In The Palgrave Handbook of African Political Economy, edited by Samuel Oloruntoba and Toyin Falola, 93–113. Palgrave Handbooks in IPE. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-38922-2_6.
   Google Scholar
• The Economist. 2015. “Industrialisation in Africa: More a Marathon than a Sprint.” The Economist, November 7. Accessed June 1, 2017. http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21677633-there-long-road-ahead-africa-emulate-east-asia-more-marathon.
   Google Scholar
• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). 2016a. “African Continental Free Trade Area: Policy and Negotiation Options for Trade in Goods.” Accessed June 3, 2017. http://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/webditc2016d7_en.pdf.
   Google Scholar
• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). 2016b. “African Continental Free Trade Area: Advancing Pan-African Integration-Some Considerations.” Accessed June 3, 2017. http://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/webditc2016d5_en.pdf.
   Google Scholar
• United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). 2015. “Industrialising through Trade.” Addis Ababa: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.
   Google Scholar
• United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). 2016. “ECA urges Africa to push ahead with Continental Free Trade Area.” Accessed June 4, 2017. http://www.uneca.org/stories/eca-urges-africa-push-ahead-continental-free-trade-area.
   Google Scholar
• United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). 2017. Smart Industrialization through Trade in the Context of Africa’s Transformation. Addis Ababa: Economic Commission for Africa.
   Google Scholar
• United Nations Office of Sub-Saharan Africa. 2017. “Final Concept Note: Consultative Meeting with OECD-DAC Members for the Preparations of the 2018 Secretary-General Report on ‘The Review of the Implementation of Commitments Made Toward Africa’s Development.’” Co-Organized by UN-OSAA, UNESCO and OECD, 16–17, May, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris.
   Google Scholar
• World Bank. 2017. “Why We Need to Close the Infrastructure Gap in Sub-Saharan Africa.” Africa Plus 15 (April). Accessed August 15, 2017. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/348741492463112162/pdf/114375-REVISED-4-18-PMWB-AfricasPulse-Sping2017-vol15-ENGLISH-FINAL-web.pdf.
   Google Scholar
• World Bank. 2020. The African Continental Free Trade Area: Economic and Distributional Effects. Washington, DC: World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34139 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.
   Google Scholar