Thursday, 14 April 2016

Africa, TPP, and TTIP: Integration or isolation? (Witney Schneidman, Brookings)

A man walks past a truck loaded with animal food at the cattle market in Maiduguri, Nigeria March 9, 2016.

With the demise of the Doha Development Round at the World Trade Organization Ministerial in Nairobi this past December, the multilateral approach to global trade negotiations has largely ended. Given that the number of regional trade agreements has increased from 70 in 1990 to more than 270 today, it appears that it is every region for itself when it comes to global trade.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/africa-in-focus/posts/2016/04/14-africa-tpp-ttip-integration-isolation-schneidman

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