1st Edition
Beyond the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Treaty The Problem of Implementation
Introduction–From Treaty to Practice: Implementing the African Continental Free Trade Area - Michael Ehis Odijie, Simeon Oludiran Akinleye and Risikat Oladoyin Dauda 1 The Limits of Trade Impact Assessments and their Implications for the AfCFTA - Bernhard Tröster and Ioana Lungu 2 The AfCFTA at the Border: Street-Level Bureaucracy and Non-Tariff Barriers - Michael Ehis Odijie 3 Who Makes Trade Policy in Nigeria’s AfCFTA? Vertical Statecraft and Performative Consultation - Michael Ehis Odijie, Simeon Oludiran Akinleye, Risikat Oladoyin Dauda, Gbenga Akinlolu Shadare and Olabanji Akinola 4 Planning for Integration, Producing Fragmentation: Coordination Failures in National AfCFTA Implementation Strategies - Michael Ehis Odijie 5 From Treaty to Project: Donor Finance and the Governance of AfCFTA Implementation - Gbenga Akinlolu Shadare and Michael Ehis Odijie 6 Bridging the Social Protection Deficit in the AfCFTA: Rationale, Challenges, and a Framework for Integration - Gbenga Akinlolu Shadare 7 Tackling Transnational Security Threats to the Implementation of the AfCFTA - Francis Kwabena Atta
Biography
Michael Ehis Odijie is Associate Professor of African History and African Studies at the University of Oxford, holding a joint appointment between the Faculty of History and the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies.
Simeon Oludiran Akinleye is Professor of Development Economics and Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. His research focuses on development and agricultural economics, with publications on rural development, macroeconomic performance and household welfare in Nigeria.
Risikat Oladoyin Dauda is Director of the Distance Learning Institute and Professor of Economics at the University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria. She is a development economist whose work spans teaching, research and academic leadership.
