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AfCFTA and the Architecture of Regional Value Chains
How corridors, standards and patient capital can make continental trade commercially real.
The question
What should infrastructure make possible?
How corridors, standards and patient capital can make continental trade commercially real.
What we observe
The asset is only the beginning
How corridors, standards and patient capital can make continental trade commercially real.
The tension
Completion is visible; productive use is the test
The central issue is whether the intervention changes the conditions for productive activity, rather than only increasing the stock of assets.
TAY interpretation
The economic unit is the system around the asset
How corridors, standards and patient capital can make continental trade commercially real.
Evidence and analysis
What the evidence shows
Closing proposition
From asset delivery to productive capability
How corridors, standards and patient capital can make continental trade commercially real.