{"id":4887,"date":"2019-06-29T21:17:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T21:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/internationaldiplomat.com\/?p=4887"},"modified":"2019-06-29T21:17:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T21:17:54","slug":"new-publication-economic-development-in-africa-report-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/?p=4887","title":{"rendered":"NEW PUBLICATION: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA REPORT 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>NEW PUBLICATION : ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA REPORT 2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Made in Africa : Rules of Origin for Enhanced Intra-African Trade<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">G<em>eneva, 27 June 2019<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Rules of origin could be a game changer for Africa and enable the African Continental Free Trade Area to catalyse the continent\u2019s regional integration by generating significant gains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rules of origin are a \u201cpassport\u201d enabling goods to circulate duty-free within a free trade area if those goods qualify as originating within the area. They are therefore one of the cornerstones for boosting trade on the continent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">UNCTAD estimates that the gross domestic product of most African countries could increase by up to 3% once all tariffs are eliminated, if rules of origin are made simple and business friendly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>All documents related to this\u00a0<\/em><em><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/unctad.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=3592d5dcafd1b9278dd78095f&amp;id=135031b038&amp;e=47e1d95f24\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/unctad.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3D3592d5dcafd1b9278dd78095f%26id%3D135031b038%26e%3D47e1d95f24&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1561929266823000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFG0QltQHGxp8GfddI7HE3ZKF1O6Q\">publication<\/a><\/em><em>\u00a0are available on the UNCTAD website.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>EK<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW PUBLICATION : ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA REPORT 2019 Made in Africa : Rules of Origin for Enhanced Intra-African Trade Geneva, 27 June 2019\u00a0\u2013 Rules of origin could be a game changer for Africa and enable the African Continental Free Trade Area to catalyse the continent\u2019s regional integration by generating significant gains. Rules of origin<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/12h71.com\/?p=4887\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[537],"tags":[2140,2862,2888,3321,4673],"class_list":["post-4887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-africa","tag-economic-development","tag-ek","tag-increase","tag-untcad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}