Given the right conditions, smaller countries could benefit more from AfCFTA

ECA’s Executive Secretary Vera Songwe led a High-level Ministerial Dialogue on “The African Continental Free Trade Area: creating fiscal space for jobs and economic diversification,” following the launch of the Ministerial segment of the 51 Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development. The debate took place with the participation of several high-level officials, and covered a variety of topics related to the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) such as the various stages of its implementation, including internal reforms needed for member countries to fully benefit from the AfCFTA, the strategic decisions needed to maximize countries’ competitiveness, or taxation issues and the importance of international cooperation in this field.

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Format: Press release biblioteca
Language:eng
Published: 2018-05
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10855/45542
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