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Trade is an essential driver of economic transformation, growth, and prosperity. At a time of global uncertainty and policy fluidity, this comprehensive volume demystifies African trade and trade policy to provide a deeper understanding of how trade impacts the lives of all Africans and the continent’s development aspirations.

Featuring a wealth of data-driven evaluations of trade negotiations and policy choices, How Africa Trades is an invaluable open access resource for making sense of the continent’s major trade challenges, including commodity dependence, competitiveness, and how African countries engage with often unconducive international trade rules that distort global markets.

In-depth analysis focuses on intra-African trade initiatives, including the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), trade between African countries and their major trading partners, and how the short-term shocks of Covid-19 restrictions brought about longer-term changes in informal and formal trade patterns, and sped-up shifts in digital trade.

Shaping The World

Edited by Professor David Luke, and featuring vital contributions on trade economics, international law and sustainable development, How Africa Trades draws on the research expertise of LSE’s Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa. This volume provides information, expertise and tools for policymakers, stakeholders and scholars with an interest in understanding the dynamics of trade and in making effective policy decisions that centre development and inclusivity for Africa and its people.

A well-researched, up-to-date and reliable source of information on key Africa trade policy issues including investment flows, intra-African trade, the AfCFTA, trade with external partners with insights on Covid-19 impacts and a realistic assessment of Africa’s engagement in the WTO. The call for a new trade deal for Africa must not go unheeded. This is a must-read for all interested in the crucial role of trade in Africa’s economic development.

This is an authoritative book on what needs to be done in Africa and its major trading partners to make the undersized and underperforming Africa’s trade become an engine of development, poverty reduction, industrialization and economic transformation. The book is a must read for anyone concerned about the future of Africa and the world.

Prize And Award Winners

A comprehensive and insightful perspective of trade policy in Africa written with clarity and analytical rigour, and which covers virtually all aspects of Africa’s trade composition, relationships and policies. This publication is timely: coming out at a critical time when the global economy has been adversely affected by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war, with implications for Africa’s trade prospect and investment performance, and when the implementation of the AfCFTA is taking root in the region; all of these are aptly captured and analysed, with emphasis on the importance of why trade matters in the overall development process (physical and human development, investment, job creation, etc.).I am certain that this publication will fill a gap in the literature on Africa trade as a ready source of data and policy insights, underpinned by critical analysis and results-oriented conclusions and recommendations, for policy makers and development analysts in the region and internationally.

— Professor Franklyn Lisk, Academic Director for Africa, University Executive Office and Professor, Politics and International Studies Departmentand Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick

David Luke is professor in practice and strategic director at the London School of EconomicsFiroz Lalji Institute for Africawhere he oversees the Africa Trade Programme. He is a former director of the African Trade Policy Centre at the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) where he led the technical work on the protocols that make up the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement. His research interests include boosting intra-African trade; the AfCFTA initiative; Africa’s multilateral and bilateral trade relationships; and cross cutting policy areas such as trade, industrialisation and structural transformation; trade, inclusion and gender; trade and public health; and trade and climate change.