Improving Governance in Africa
Policy
Regulatory
Regional integration challenges:
Institutional
Infrastructural
Integrate Africa
African countries are losing out on billions of
dollars in potential trade every year because
of fragmented regional markets and lack of
cross-border production networks that can
spur economic dynamism
The Bank Group focus
Intra-African trade at 15%, lowest globally compared to
Building regional
infrastructure
Boosting
intra-African
Facilitating
movement of
trade and
investment
people across
borders
70% in the EU
54% in the
North America
Free Trade Area
60% in Asia
Our ambition.....to lead several continent-wide initiatives targeting both "hard"
and "soft" infrastructure
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Continental Free Trade Area - to address Africa's low internal and external
trade performances
Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program
Program for Infrastructure Development in Africa - designed to develop
a vision and strategic framework for the development of regional and
continental infrastructure
Sahel and the Drought Resilience and Sustainable Livelihoods Program in the
Horn of Africa
AfDB to invest about USD 3.5 billion per year from 2016 to develop high quality regional infrastructure
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