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Business Daily: African Free trade: What’s in it for women?

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12/02/2021 GMT

African Free trade: What’s in it for women?

BBC World Service - Business Daily, African Free trade: What’s in it for women?

The African Continental Free Trade Area is yet to recognise women's roles in the economy

After years of planning and delays, Africa’s new trade bloc, the African Continental Free Trade Area, opened in January with the promise of transforming the continent’s economies.  Amandla Ooko-Ombaka of McKinsey and Company in Nairobi explains the enormous poverty-reducing potential the bloc represents. But some are calling for the agreement’s terms to more directly benefit women, by helping facilitate trade in their wares across borders. Caroline Gethi of the Organisation of Women in International Trade and Gloria Atuheirwe of Trademark East Africa say the agreement hasn't gone far enough to promote gender equality, and that it as yet doesn’t even recognise the role of women in informal trade which is the backbone of Africa’s economies.

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