This three-volume set presents results of a research project initiated by the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC). Titled Africa and the World Trading System, the project intended to identify and examine the critical analytical and policy issues involved in Africa’s economic links with the rest of the world, particularly in the context of the emerging global trading system. Conducted by some of the leading specialists in African and global trade issues, the project had two distinct, but closely inter-related component parts. The first consisted of research that was analytical and/or empirical in nature but region-wide in scope and focus. This component was designed to provide the framework for the selection of the menu of issues that was subsequently explored in greater detail, using the country case study approach, in the project’s second component. The framework papers generated in the first component of the project are presented in Volume I, while the country case studies are contained in Volume II. Volume III contains papers presented at the project’s dissemination workshop.

This volume therefore represents some of the material presented at a workshop held in Geneva in March 2000 for African representatives to the WTO, to present some of the country studies along with thematic overviews. It covers trade in services in some depth, with both country studies and two overview pieces. Other chapters are devoted to industrial policy, intellectual property rights, special and differential treatment, and experience with technical assistance for capacity building. Agricultural trade is handled in a separate volume, given its importance and complexity.

ABOUT THE EDITORS
DOMINIQUE NJINKEU is the Executive Director of the International Lawyers and Economists Against Poverty (ILEAP) and formerly deputy director of Research of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC). He holds a Ph.D in Economics, a Master Degree in Economics and Statistics and a Masters Degree in Agribusiness economics. His research interests are in trade policy and African Development.

PHILIP ENGLISH is a Senior Economist working at the World Bank Institute where he is the Trade Coordinator, West Africa. He has also worked at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in Ottawa, Canada, the African Development Bank in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, and the North-South Institute, also in Ottawa. He is a specialist on trade issues and has published several books on the subject.

CATEGORY
Economics/AFRICA

PUBLICATION YEAR
2008

PAGE COUNT
221 Pages