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Browsing: AfCFTA Secretary General
One of the major criticisms raised against his ambitious continent-wide free trade pact is the fact that it is bound to have disproportionate benefits for different countries. There are already pre-existing inequalities that favour more developed countries.
Bluntly speaking, it is to be reasonably expected that it is the continent’s tycoons, large business owners that will benefit the most.
Consider this, only three of the agreement’s members i.e. Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt account for almost half (50%) of all of Africa’s GDP. Take for instance the fact that in 2020 alone, the continent of Africa as a whole, imported US$20 billion worth of goods from South Africa.
With the tariff-free movement of goods, South Africa will enjoy a tremendous increase in trade output to the rest of the continent at much lower costs.…