- The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has launched a comprehensive tool that measures how easy, or hard, it is to do business between African countries. The launch took place in a side event during the recent 54th session of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Conference of Ministers in Dakar, Senegal.
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has launched a comprehensive tool that measures how easy, or hard, it is to do business between African countries. The launch took place in a side event during the recent 54th session of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Conference of Ministers in Dakar, Senegal.
Called as the AfCFTA Country Business Index (ACBI), it has three key objectives such as assessing the perceived impact of the African Continental Free Trade Area on the private sector’s ability to trade and invest across African borders once the Area is operational.
Stephen Karingi, Director of the Regional Integration and Trade Division of UNECA said that the idea was hatched in 2018 to critically examine the bottlenecks and challenges faced by private businesses, in its cross-border activities.
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