Building Africa's Post-COVID Economic Resilience: What Role for the AfCFTA?

Despite the delay to the implementation and subsequent negotiating phases of the AfCFTA, this issue of Trade Hot Topics discusses how current achievements and ongoing negotiations for Phase 1 (movement of goods and services) and future negotiations for Phase 2 (investment, competition policy and e-commerce) can be positioned as a catalyst to enhance a trade paradigm capable of withstanding shocks to the international trading system.