Trade, Industry & Integration
Trade policy, industrial policy, and the continental market.
The external-sector and structural-transformation specialization: the theory and instruments of trade policy, African regional integration and the AfCFTA, and the industrial and competition policy that shapes what an economy produces.
By the end
- ✓Analyse a tariff or trade agreement for its winners and losers
- ✓Explain trade creation vs diversion in a regional bloc
- ✓Read the AfCFTA architecture and its rules-of-origin politics
- ✓Assess an industrial-policy programme against the developmental-state record
- ✓Reason about competition policy and the regulation of network industries
Prereqs
- •Microeconomics basics
- •Interest in development and structural change
Courses
International Trade Policy
IntermediateWhy countries trade, who wins and loses, and what governments do about it. Comparative advantage and the new trade theory, the instruments of protection, the WTO order, trade and development, global value chains, and the adjustment problem.
AfCFTA & Regional Integration
IntermediateThe economics and politics of stitching 54 markets together. The case for integration, trade creation vs diversion, the regional building blocks, the AfCFTA architecture, rules of origin, the services and digital agenda, and whether it will actually work.
Industrial Policy & Competition
AdvancedHow governments try to shape what an economy produces — and how they regulate the firms that result. The revival of industrial policy, the toolkit, the developmental-state record, special economic zones, competition policy, the regulation of network industries, and state-owned enterprises.