AFRICAN EXPORT-IMPORT BANK
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PRESS RELEASE
Afreximbank plans African trade journal
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Afreximbank President Jean-Louis Ekra (left) and his predecessor, Christopher Edordu (right), share a
joke as Francis Mbroh (centre), Director, Afreximbank Research Department, looks on.
Cairo, 26 April 2013 –
To
help fill the gaps in availability of accurate information and
statistics on African trade and trade finance and to publish research on
trade-related issues of interest
to entities promoting and financing African trade, the African
Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is to begin the publication of the
Journal of African Trade, a peer-reviewed journal.
Jean-Louis Ekra, President of Afreximbank, said today in Cairo during
the maiden meeting of the Editorial Board and Managing Editors of the
publication
that the Journal of African Trade would be an authoritative
medium for the publication and dissemination of research findings on
contemporary policy issues relating to African trade development and
that it would be devoted to African trade, trade finance
and other trade related issues.
Mr. Ekra said that the Journal would address the challenge faced by
governments, businesses, banks and other entities involved in
policy-making
in respect of African trade, trade finance and trade negotiations, who,
because of lack of credible data, often had to make decisions with
limited information, with attendant poor results.
It will contain a blend of theoretical and empirical research work and
would consist of articles written by prominent international trade
professionals,
including academics and researchers, with in-depth knowledge of global
and African trade.
The Journal is being managed by a 16-member Editorial Board and a
five–member team of Managing Editors. The Editorial Board is made up of
economists
and trade experts with proven technical competences in international
trade and trade finance and is responsible for controlling the quality
of the publication. The Managing Editors are knowledgeable and well
known economists.
The first issue of the journal is due to be released in October 2013.
Participants at today’s meeting include Prof. Alemayehu Geda of the
Department of Economics, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; Prof.
Nicholas
Biekpe of the Africagrowth Institute, Cape Town, South Africa; Mr.
Stephen Karingi, Director, Regional Integration and Trade, United
Nations Economic Commission for Africa; Dr. Benoit Beila Malan of the
Economics Department, University of Cocody, Abidjan,
Cote d’Ivoire; Prof. Fondo Sikod of the University of Yaounde,
Cameroon; and Mr. Chistopher Edordu, former President of Afreximbank.
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