Please give me a hand with this entry Focus on Africa Industrialization Day (AID) For an effective and sustainable industrialization some arrangements must be made. One of it, is CFTA. The Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) was launched by African Heads of States in 2015 to create a single market for Africa. The CFTA aims to open the economies of fifty-four African countries to trade, combined possessing a population of more than one billion people and a gross domestic product of more than US $3.4 trillion. When implemented, the CFTA will significantly help to drive structural transformation and poverty eradication in Africa. The CFTA will enable the free movement of business persons and investments, expand intra-African trade, resolve challenges of multiple and overlapping memberships, and enhance competitiveness at the industry and enterprise level. Trade liberalization can help countries exploit opportunities for scaled production, continental market access and better reallocation of resources, but not without key contributors to industrialization such as upgrading productive capacities, increasing technological transfer and institutional capabilities, prioritizing strategic industrial sectors where Africa has comparative advantages, and investing in relevant infrastructure improvements. In order for the CFTA to create structural transformation, coherent, rapid and robust industrial policy strategies must be implemented at the country level. To conclude, AID plays a special role in promoting the acceleration of sustainable industrial development in Africa. A Continental Free Trade Area, based on all that has been said above, is the key to make Africa one and to catalyze its development.

Please correct this entry for me Zoom in Africa Industrialization Day (AID). On Monday November 20th, 2017, the international community and especially African countries celebrated the “Africa Industrialization Day (AID)”. This year’s event was under the theme “African Industrial Development: A Pre-Condition for an Effective and Sustainable Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA).” Why Africa Industrialization Day? How a continental Free Trade Area can help Africa get industrialized? In 1989, the General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed 20 November as “Africa Industrialization Day” to mobilize commitment from the international community to the industrialization of Africa. Since then, UNIDO, (United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in collaboration with the Office of the Special Adviser on Africa (OSAA) and the Office of the Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations (AU) have been leading this celebration. An event to raise awareness and stir up all country to get involved in Africa’s industrialization. Indeed, over half (54%) of African’s population leaves under 1.25 dollar a day and 34 out of 48 Least Developed Countries(LDCs) are in Africa. Getting access to a good education, health care, etc. are the most common ways to get rid of poverty. Nevertheless, industrialization has become the requisite mean for the takeoff of Africa. Industrialization, creates jobs, increases income, enhances the value of agricultural products, causes the technic progress and gives to governments the means to eradicate poverty. For instance, within five years, the growth of Turkey’s GDP was about 121% after un strong work on their industries. Likewise, between 1986 and 1990, the Gross Domestic Product of Malaysia has more than doubled; result of a mass of investment in electronic sector. (excerpt from Industrialize Africa of African Development Bank Group)

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