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Kenneth T Tanyi

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• Research Article
  Assessing Africa�¢����s Two Billion Populated Market by 2063: The Facts and Fallacies of a Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA)
  Author(s): Kenneth T TanyiKenneth T Tanyi
  
  This paper analyses the continuous efforts made by African Heads of States and Governments of the African Union (AU) in promoting the AU Agenda 2063 in seeking to harness the continent’s comparative advantages on its youthful population, emerging middle-class consumers, rich natural resources and young labor force capable of transforming Africa in the next 50 years. The undeniable benefits of inter and intra-African trade, trade facilitation, the gradual dismantling of tariff barriers across African borders and their sensitive impacts on national sovereignty and a multiple of geopolitical regional trade arrangements shall be reviewed in this paper in an effort to address current challenges hindering Africa’s regional integration and sustainable development. With key objectives of facilitating trade finance for young African youths and female entrepreneurs, the harmonizatio.. Read More»
  

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