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Trade Creation and Development: Mutual Gains from Regional Integration in Africa
Graham Watson
23rd June 2021
This World Bank clip looks at the benefits of closer regional integration in sub-Saharan Africa.
It highlights many of the potential benefits of free trade, in the form of lower costs, bigger markets, greater choice, more competition and the positive externalities that come from improved infrastructure.
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Graham Watson
Graham Watson has taught Economics for over twenty years. He contributes to tutor2u, reads voraciously and is interested in all aspects of Teaching and Learning.
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