Regional economic integration in sub-Saharan Africa
| Title | Regional economic integration in sub-Saharan Africa |
| Publication Type | Book Chapter |
| Year of Publication | 1998 |
| Authors | P.J.J. Konings, and H.A. Meilink |
| Secondary Title | Regionalization and globalization in the modern world economy: perspectives on the Third World and transitional economies |
| Pagination | 143 - 145 |
| Date Published | 1998/// |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Place Published | London [etc.] |
| Publication Language | eng |
| Keywords | 1991, Africa, economic integration, Subsaharan Africa |
| Abstract | The issue of regional integration has acquired a new relevance and urgency in Africa due to wide-reaching national and global changes. African leaders' commitment to regional economic integration was clearly expressed during the June 1991 OAU summit meeting in Abuja, Nigeria. On that occasion, they signed a treaty to establish an African Economic Community (AEC) by the year 2025. This chapter reviews the various regional integration schemes that came into existence in the aftermath of independence - Union douanière et économique de l'Afrique centrale (UDEAC), East African Community (EAC), Communauté économique de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (CEAO), ECOWAS, Union économique et monétaire ouest-africaine (UEMOA), Economic and Monetary Union of Central Africa (CEMAC), and Southern African Customs Union (SACU). The chapter explains the reasons for the relative failure of these schemes and examines the consequences of Africa's rapidly changing position in the global economy for regional integration |
| Notes | Bibliogr.: bl. 143-145 - Overdr. uit: Regionalization and globalization in the modern world economy: perspectives on the Third World and transitional economies; p. 128-145 |
| IR handle/ Full text URL | http://hdl.handle.net/1887/4617 |
| Citation Key | 627 |