African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA): The Law, the Economics and the Research

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Online guide to the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) written by Dunia P. Zongwe who is Associate Professor at Alliance University, India and Adjunct Associate Professor at Walter Sisulu University (WSU), South Africa. The article was published in 2024 on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School at the NYU, School of Law. The author provides historical and background information to the AfCFTA Agreement which was signed in 2018 establishing a free trade area among member states of the African Union (AU). There is a list of member states and an outline of the objectives and the economic issues AfCFTA aims to tackle. A bibliography of printed and online resources is also given.

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