{"id":553,"date":"2020-12-04T21:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T21:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rasa-africa.org\/?p=539"},"modified":"2023-01-04T19:50:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T19:50:51","slug":"webinaire-si-les-ape-sont-le-probleme-la-zleca-est-elle-la-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rasa-africa.org\/ens\/2020\/12\/04\/webinaire-si-les-ape-sont-le-probleme-la-zleca-est-elle-la-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar: If EPAs are the problem, is the FTAA the solution?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ndongo Samba SYLLA: \u00ab\u00a0Tomorrow, November 10, 20202, starting at 10:00 am CET (9:00 am Dakar time) we will discuss the political economy of the Continental Free Trade Area (#CFTA). In particular, I will intervene to highlight the lack of rigorous scientific work to date to justify the economic rationale for intra-African \u00ab\u00a0free trade. Roughly speaking, [and apart from the statistical problems], the existing work defends the FTAA on the basis of the following assumptions: no unemployment\/underemployment, customs revenue losses are automatically compensated and have no impact on aggregate demand, trade deficits are automatically absorbed (exchange rates are flexible &#8211; hello CFA franc!), foreign currency debt plays no role, etc. \u00ab\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To register: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosalux.eu\/en\/article\/23.events.html?id=1213&amp;action=register&amp;fbclid=IwAR3eqeQt7KnXTUeBoB55M6Q9hx3if8m2KxAwyLNJ-TJrVo5Bdck8D61_skc\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.rosalux.eu\/en\/article\/23.events.html?id=1213&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ndongo Samba SYLLA: \u00ab\u00a0Tomorrow, November 10, 20202, starting at 10:00 am CET (9:00 am Dakar time) we will discuss the political economy of the Continental Free Trade Area (#CFTA). In particular, I will intervene to highlight the lack of rigorous scientific work to date to justify the economic rationale for intra-African \u00ab\u00a0free trade. Roughly speaking, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-agenda"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasa-africa.org\/ens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasa-africa.org\/ens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasa-africa.org\/ens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasa-africa.org\/ens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasa-africa.org\/ens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rasa-africa.org\/ens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4012,"href":"https:\/\/rasa-africa.org\/ens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/4012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasa-africa.org\/ens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasa-africa.org\/ens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasa-africa.org\/ens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}