Regional Economic Integration in Africa: Challenges and Prospects

Meeting the Challenges of Regional Integration, Intra-African Trade and Economic Growth in Africa

The Africa Economic Research Consortium (AERC) hosted the third in the series of Workshops between January 31 – February 1, 2007; in Nairobi, Kenya. The partners Africa’s Development Bank (AFDB), Joint Africa Institute (JAI), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), New Economic Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) and the World Bank provided assistance with logistical arra...

Regional Financial and Economic Integration in West Africa

Previous studies of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have evaluated the union’s success in comparison to other integration initiatives and according to traditional theory on the optimum currency area, which calls for high intraregional trade and correlated business cycles. This study seeks to determine the prospects for further integration in West Africa given the region’s...

Food Security in Africa : Challenges and Prospects

Food insecurity and hunger are widespread in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Food security implies the provision of safe, nutritious, and quantitatively and qualitatively adequate food, as well as access to it by all people. The chronic food insecurity in SSA is largely due to the fact that 85-90 per cent of agriculture is rain-fed and accounts for 35 percent of the region’s gross national product (G...

Hybrid Rice in Africa: Challenges and Prospects

(eds M.C.S. Wopereis et al.) 173 Since the early 1990s, several other countries (Bangladesh, Egypt, India and Vietnam) have developed and introduced hybrid rice technology to their farmers. The availability of adequately trained human resources is an essential prerequisite for developing and using hybrid rice technology. Hybrid rice breeding uses several concepts, skills and procedures that are...

Forensic psychiatry in Africa: prospects and challenges.