Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/267549 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of African Trade [ISSN:] 2214-8523 [Volume:] 8 [Issue:] 2 [Publisher:] Atlantis Press [Place:] Paris [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 24-35
Publisher: 
Atlantis Press, Paris
Abstract: 
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) was established in 1993 as a crisis management institution on the heels of the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s. It has since grown into Africa's foremost regional integration bank, and is playing a critical role in supporting the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). In addition to raising resources dedicated to the expansion of intra-African trade and the diversification of sources of growth, Afreximbank has bolstered its trade facilitation programmes and drawn on digitalisation to build an integrated payments system to assuage liquidity constraints and sustainably boost cross-border trade and growth. This paper reviews various innovative measures and facilities deployed by the bank to finance and leverage more resources toward a successful realisation of the AfCFTA.
Subjects: 
AfCFTA
Afreximbank
industrialisation
intra-African trade
trade finance
JEL: 
B17
E62
F15
F36
O19
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