Africa's Progress in Regional and Global Economic Integration - Towards New Trade and Investment Policies

The book analyses how to make trade and investment policies in Africa relevant for structural change. First the framework of coherent and comprehensive trade policies is presented; the role of international organisations in promoting agricultural export trade is analysed; and the divergence between planned and actual export diversification strategies is discussed. Secondly it is investigated how investment policies could be redirected towards major economic sectors, how oil-exporting countries can strengthen their industrial policy towards export diversification and how global value chains can be strengthened by appropriate policies.