Information Brief on AfCFTA Third World Network-Africa October 30, 2020
SACU member states debate AfCFTA tariff concessions amidst economic realities in the region, as the January 2021 date for trading approaches
GLOBAL FINANCE AND AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES:A Prospectus for African Research And Advocacy
From 19-21 February 2019 Third World Network Africa (TWN-Africa) hosted policy makers, scholars and activists from Africa, and from Europe, and Asia for three day of discussions in on Finance and Development in Africa in Accra, Ghana
Crisis, Restructuring and Challenges of Finance in Development: Recent Experiences of Banking in Ghana
Introduction For two years from 2017, Ghana underwent a “banking crisis” which is not fully over with continuing ripple effects. Like other crises before, the effects have been potentially cataclysmic, with life-changing social consequences for all, but particularly for...
Information Brief on AfCFTA Third World Network-Africa 23rd September 2020
Outstanding work remains to be done within ECOWAS before AfCFTA can be operationalised, says Mr Tiemtore, Director of Customs, ECOWAS Commission Some three months to the official date of January 1, 2021, for the trading of goods under Africa’s...
Information Brief on AfCFTA Third World Network-Africa 15th July 2020
The main constraint to boosting intra-African trade is not tariff barriers per se but real productive constraints, says Ambassador Xavier Carim of South Africa. The main constraints to boosting intra-Africa within Africa’s Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is not...