Africa’s trade facilitation preparedness & ethical property rights
Edited by Gbadebo Odularu, Bamidele Adekunle & Caiphas Chekwoti
2024
ISBN: 978-1-7764485-4-8
Pages: 319
Print version: Available
Electronic version: Free PDF available
About the publication
With the AfCFTA in force and several regional integration initiatives ongoing in Africa, effective implementation promises an economic growth and development trajectory that defi nes the ‘Africa we want’ as posited by the African policymakers within the context of the African Union’s ‘Agenda 2063’. This is more evident with emerging dynamics characterised by unprecedented shocks and fast-paced evolution in the digital space. The implications of these dynamics beckon a rethinking of the strategies for riding on and above the wave. This book delves into some of the policy intricacies and generates both insights on emerging shocks, digitalisation, intellectual property rights and raises interesting issues for further reflection. It is a great read that illuminates critical trade issues with important policy implications.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
About the editors and contributors
List of tables
List of figures
Chapter 1
Digital platforms, unfair trade, and computational competition
Gbadebo Odularu and Caiphas Chekwoti
Chapter 2
Hidden asymmetries: Enhancing trade through traceability, crypto-labelling and ethical property rights
Bamidele Adekunle, Christine Kajumba and Adewale S Bello
Chapter 3
The role of HRM practices in firm innovation and product competitiveness: Implications for intra-regional trade, evidence from firms in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania
Caiphas Chekwoti
Chapter 4
Africa-gendered trade capacity: Geographical indications perspective
Sand Mba-Kalu
Chapter 5
Incomplete contracts, bleeding FTAs, and digital trade in the AfCFTA context
Gbadebo Odularu
Chapter 6
Trade in services in West Africa: Intellectual property right and trade facilitation
Folasade B Adegboye and Tolulope F Adesina
Chapter 7
Women digital entrepreneurship, trade and the new equation
Iraoya A Okhale and Gbadebo Odularu
Chapter 8
Trade facilitation: Understanding the political economy of non-tariff barriers in sub-Saharan Africa
Bamidele Adekunle and Glen Filson
Chapter 9
Vaccine inequity and ethically anti-fragile competition laws
Gbadebo Odularu and Bamidele Adekunle