The goal of the research was to assess the challenges for intra-African trade and to construct an understanding and business models of where and how Regulation as a Stimulus (RaaS) might accelerate growth of intraAfrican trade. RaaS is a series of regulatory measures aimed at accelerating intra-African trade facilitation and trade promotion. Governments can critically offset some of the short-term adjustment costs associated with increased openness thereby relieving businesses from high export costs and hence providing a stimulus to trade and recovery from the Covid 19 pandemic.
The research for it was conducted within core research phase was between August 2021 and October 2021. This limited the scope of the methodologies available to us during the time and, combined with a lack of publicly available and consistent data limits the report a discussion of potential further research rather than a definitive quantification of the impact or scale of RaaS.
