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Trade Facilitation Capacity Needs

Policy Directions for National and Regional Development in West Africa

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Editors:
  1. Gbadebo Odularu

    1. Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance, School of Business and Technology Marymount University, Arlington, VA, USA

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  2. Philip Alege

    1. Department of Economics and Development Studies, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

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  • Objectively addresses inclusive development and trade policy issues

  • Provides innovative solutions to current challenges

  • Includes comprehensive, practical and workable trade facilitation policy recommendations towards making West Africa a strategic player in regional and global trade landscapes

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: The Changing Landscape of Trade Facilitation and Regional Development Issues in West Africa

    • Gbadebo Odularu
    Pages 1-23

  3. Addressing Trade Facilitation Commitments and Implementation Capacity Gaps: Issues and Evidence from Nigeria

    • Adenike Odularu
    Pages 25-45

  4. Building a Smart Deal for Nigeria in the AfCFTA Negotiations: Issues, Processes and Policy Directions

    • Ndah Abu Ali
    Pages 47-65

  5. Bilateral Trade Flows, Trade Facilitation, and RTAs: Lessons from ECOWAS

    • John T. Odebiyi, Philip Alege
    Pages 67-90

  6. Conclusion and Policy Recommendations: Concrete Strategies for Advancing Trade Facilitation Agenda and Fostering Regional Economic Development in West Africa

    • Gbadebo Odularu
    Pages 91-114

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 115-117
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About this book

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of both national and regional trade facilitation capacities, issues, challenges and lessons, with a special interest in sustainably advancing West Africa’s regional trade facilitation agenda. It examines the contributions of trade facilitation towards enhancing regional integration and economic expansion in the face of increasing non-tariff barriers that highly characterises West African agri-food and non-agricultural markets. The authors recommend new conceptual frameworks, appropriate initiatives, and workable policy recipes towards enhancing West Africa’s trade facilitation agenda as well as the regional economic transformation trajectory in the face of the ongoing African Continental Free Trade Agreements (AfCFTA). The book underscores the geopolitics, opportunities and challenges that confront West Africa in the increasingly dynamic regional trade facilitation policy space. Readers will learn how West Africa can improve its regional trade facilitation game amidst emerging capacity challenges.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance, School of Business and Technology Marymount University, Arlington, VA, USA

    Gbadebo Odularu

  • Department of Economics and Development Studies, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

    Philip Alege

About the editors

Gbadebo Odularu is a Research Associate at the Centre for Research on Political Economy (CREPOL), Dakar-Yoff, Senegal. Professor Odularu is also affiliated with the School of Business and Technology, Marymount University, Arlington, as well as the American Heritage University of Southern California (AHUSC), USA.


Philip Alege is a Professor in the Department of Economics and Development Studies and Dean of the College of Business and Social Sciences at Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria.


   



   



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Trade Facilitation Capacity Needs

  • Book Subtitle: Policy Directions for National and Regional Development in West Africa

  • Editors: Gbadebo Odularu, Philip Alege

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05946-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-05945-3Published: 27 February 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05946-0Published: 01 February 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 117

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Development Economics, African Economics, International Economics

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