Continental Free Trade
Tonight on CRTV television, OUR COMMON MARKET a 52- minute documentary by Charles Ebune who is also the anchor of Globe Watch. He delves into the the Continental Free Trade Area by African countries to create the single largest trading community in the world with close to two billion consumers and a gross domestic product of nearly three trillion dollars annually. The fifty two minutes documentary is actually based on the field presences of the narrator from the African Capital, Addis Ababa to chronicle with policy makers, the net impact of the African Common Market as a tool for continental unity.
First class policy information comes from the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Vera Songwe, the ideology of the Common Market is explained by African Union scholar, Jean Emmanuel Pondi, governments determination to see it a reality is interpreted by Ghanian finance minister, Nana Ofori Atta, the salutation of the initiative from development partners is done by the United Nations Development partners and the impact on the African people is recounted by the former president of the African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka amongst others.