2. Economic Governance The quality of economic governance affects development outcomes of any country. While there are many issues of concern about economic governance in Africa, our niche area will be in building capacity for trade negotiation at bilateral, regional and international levels. For too long, African countries have been at the receiving end of suboptimal outcomes in trade and investment negotiations. Our intervention will involve training of bureaucrats on the best way to engage other parts of the world during negotiations.
We will also be working with the National Research Foundation of South Africa. The academic content of this programme will involve organising roundtables and colloquia on an annual basis on issue of trade, investment and trade policies. Funders will include: National Research Foundation of South Africa, Department of Trade and Industries in key countries in Africa such as Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and Egypt, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa .
Besides, we will develop academic programmes through which we will recruit and supervise Masters and Doctoral students whose research focus will be on trade and investment negotiations.
Postdoctoral students will also be recruited who will carry out research on core issues of trade and investment negotiations, identifying gaps in existing trade, investment and industrial policies and seeking for how these can be channelled toward boosting development on the continent.
We will be working in partnership with the Trade Departments of the four leading countries on the continent in order to build a cross continental programme on trade negotiations.
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