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Africa's Free Trade Dream

Geoff Riley

21st March 2018

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Can a single market work to increase intra-regional trade within Sub Saharan Africa? Here is a great contextual example to read about and use for Year 13 economists studying trade, growth and development and much else besides.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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