Sub-Saharan Africa and Global Trade: What Sub-Saharan Africa needs to do to maximize the Benefits from Global Trade Integration, Increase Economic Growth and Reduce Poverty?

The paper begins with the brief analysis of the role of trade liberalization and its impact on economic growth. It then discusses issues of SSA participation in the global trading system and the impact of intra-regional trade in SSA. Also analyzed are challenges to SSA trade facilitations and role of the international community in building SSA capacity to integrate into the global economy. This is followed by discussion of the dynamism of trade between SSA-South. The paper ends with a set of policy implications and recommendations for SSA.