Financial services (de-)regulation in trade agreements Part 1: GATS 1994 First services trade agreement Four modes of services trade Most important: mode 3, investment Market access and national treatment commitments via bottom-up approach Commitments can not be changed without...
Various stakeholders in Ghana have raised concerns with the quality of the processes, the content and the speed of negotiations of proposed Africa’s Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and agreed on a seven-member Ad hoc Committee, to contribute to...
African Countries Split on Special and Different Treatment within the CFTA Discussions There is a sharp split along the lines of least developed countries on one hand, and non-least developed African countries on the other, on the level of...
Transforming African Economies, Building SMEs Capacities: Fundamental to AfCFTA success The Senegalese capital, Dakar, witnessed a range of stakeholders from across Africa for a consultative workshop on Africa’s Continental Free Trade (AfCFTA) from 5-9th November 2018. Participants discussed and...
ECOWAS Multi-stakeholder Dialogue Calls for Concerns on AfCFTA to be Addressed Concerns over the content, process and speed of negotiations of Africa’s Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) persist despite incessant calls for improvement in these areas of the negotiations....