The drivers of regional integration for Africa's development -- Institutions and regional integration in Africa -- The case for rationalization : the inefficiency and ineffectiveness of the regional economic communities -- Missing consensus and actions at the national level -- Inadequate coordination at the continental level -- Defining a framework for rationalization -- Strengthening the rationalization framework.
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This report examines the effectiveness of Africa's regional economic communities in pushing forward the regional integration agenda towards the objectives of the Abuja Treaty establishing the African Economic Community. A fully functioning African Economic Community would remove all barriers to movement of people, goods and services across the continent, thereby creating a single economic space. The report examines the critical role that institutions in general can play in achieving policy objectives, and the specific role that African institutions perform. The analysis focuses on the regional economic communities, which have been designated by the African Union as the building blocks for achieving the African Economic Community.--Publisher's description.
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