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Regional Economic Communities

In: Africans Investing in Africa

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  • Jacqueline Chimhanzi

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There is, arguably, no greater topical issue in Africa than that of regional integration — a concept whose time has definitely come but whose operationalisation is still in the making and upon which Africa’s massive unrealised potential lies. Central to the importance of Regional Economic Communities (RECs) is their cross-cutting nature that transcends virtually all economic activity and sectors — from manufacturing, energy, infrastructure and financial services to tourism — underpinned by a very simple rationale — that there is strength in numbers. Given the transformative potential of regional integration, the integration discourse is actually best located in the broader context of development and economic transformation — beyond merely ‘fixing borders’ as an end in itself. Marcelo Giugale, the World Bank’s Africa Director for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, aptly expressed it as follows: ‘The final prize is clear: … Africans trad[ing] goods and services with each other. Few contributions carry more development power than that’.1

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  • Jacqueline Chimhanzi, 2015. "Regional Economic Communities," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Terence McNamee & Mark Pearson & Wiebe Boer (ed.), Africans Investing in Africa, chapter 3, pages 35-62, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-54280-9_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137542809_4
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    1. Yamlaksira S. Getachew & Roger Fon & Elie Chrysostome, 2023. "On the location choices of African multinational enterprises: Do supranational economic institutions matter?," Journal of International Business Policy, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 6(4), pages 453-490, December.

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