WEBINAR INVITATION - Great expectations – will AfCFTA deliver?

09 June 2021 -09 June 2021 @ 14:15 - 16:15

Details

Date:
June 9, 2021
Time:
02:15 PM - 04:15 PM
Venue:
Online via Zoom - https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_immQ8dhJQwWV1b0xXcyg7A
Event Type:
Seminar

Organizer

Bulelani Mothlabane
Phone:
046 603 8919
Email:
b.mothlabane@ru.ac.za

Great expectations – will AfCFTA deliver?


African countries opened their markets on 1st January under the African Continental Free Area (AfCFTA), a continent-wide free trade area that paves the way for a continental customs union.  By creating a mutually beneficial trade agreement among the member states, the AfCFTA pact is expected to promote industrialisation, create jobs, empower women (by improving their access to trade opportunities) and improve the competitiveness of African industries on the global stage.  Can we expect  AfCFTA to significantly increase intra-regional trade? What are the results we’re seeing so far?

Professor Tsitsi Mutambara of Rhodes University presents her study examining the regional intensity of trade in Africa from 2001-2018 and the implications for intra-Africa trade in the African Continental Free Area (AfCFTA). The results are considered as an ex post indication of trade integration and intra-Africa trade, with the AfCFTA in place. 

 

DATE: Wednesday, 9 June

TIME: 14h15

REGISTERhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_immQ8dhJQwWV1b0xXcyg7A

 

CHAIR:

Professor Cyril Nhlanhla Mbatha
Director, Rhodes Institute of Social and Economic Research

 

SPEAKER:

Professor Tsitsi Mutambara
Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Economic History, Rhodes University Faculty of Commerce 

RESPONDENT:

Mr Simon Hess

Head – Monitoring and Evaluation, Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) Initiative, World Trade Organisation

 

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