The African Development Bank (AfDB), the African Union Commission (AUC) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) have jointly called for African countries to strengthen their economic integration. They made this call at the recent launch of the Africa Regional Integration Index 2019 (ARII 2019). This is the second such index to be produced, the first being ARII 2016. The ARIIs provided the latest available information on the state and development of regional integration in Africa as a whole as well as within each of the eight Regional Economic Communities (RECs) within the continent. The ARII 2019 showed that the level of integration remained quite low, with an average score for African countries of just 0.327 out of 1. Twenty African countries scored above this average but even the most highly integrated African country, South Africa, scored only 0.625.
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