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A critical analysis of ECOWAS power infrastructure integration schemes as a model for regional integration in Africa
Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/43673 A critical analysis of ECOWAS power infrastructure integration schemes as a model for regional integration in Africa Soyeju, Olufemi Olugbemiga wonderrkfreeman@gmail.com Freeman, W.K. Infrastructure deficit Inter-governmentalism Internaltional trade Legal and Institutional Framework Power pool Productive capacity Power infrastructure Regional integration Supranational institutions UCTD Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2014. International trade has been a staple of the world economy for centuries. In today‟s world, as the pressure of globalization takes hold, and as the role of the state recedes while the role of regions increase, the need to maximize the benefits of international trade and investment inflows becomes even more accentuated. Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in particular, has perennially been on the periphery of global trade and investments, contributing no more than 3-4%, notwithstanding SSA having proportionately much higher population and natural resource base. To improve SSA ability to be competitive in international trade as well as to multiply intra-african trade, the continent‟s leaders have long resorted to forming regional economic communities (RECs). But more than five decades of regional economic integration in SSA has produced mostly failed RECs. Yet regional integration is being touted as SSA surest bet for relevance in the global economy. Therein lies the paradox! How can an undertaking that have produced mostly failures be the self-same route out of global economic irrelevance? In this study, it is shown that the model for regional integration adopted by many SSA RECs, the linear model, also considered the Eurocentric model of regional integration, buttressed by an intergovernmental legal framework, does not suit the peculiar circumstances of the region and is the cause for the near total failure of regional integration on the continent. This research, using the ECOWAS specialized institutions as case studies – the West African Power Pool (WAPP) and the ECOWAS Regional Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERERA) – argues for a paradigm shift in the conceptualisation of regionalism on the continent. It argues for a shift to developmental regionalism, buttressed by strong supranational legal framework. The study shows that the West African regional bloc, ECOWAS, now recognises the nexus between the development of trade-related infrastructure and intra-african trade on the one hand, as well as the nexus between the development regionalism and the expansion of SSA trade with the rest of the world, on the other hand. Accordingly, the study concludes that ECOWAS institutionalization of a regional electricity market via the establishment of regional institutions of WAPP and ERERA is the new model for regional integration in SSA. gm2015 Centre for Human Rights LLM Unrestricted 2015-02-17T06:47:11Z 2015-02-17T06:47:11Z 2014-12-10 2014 Dissertation Freeman, W 2014, A critical analysis of ECOWAS power infrastructure integration schemes as a model for regional integration in Africa, LLM Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/43673> M14/4/488/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/43673 en © 2014 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Infrastructure deficit Inter-governmentalism Internaltional trade Legal and Institutional Framework Power pool Productive capacity Power infrastructure Regional integration Supranational institutions UCTD A critical analysis of ECOWAS power infrastructure integration schemes as a model for regional integration in Africa |
| title | A critical analysis of ECOWAS power infrastructure integration schemes as a model for regional integration in Africa |
| title_full | A critical analysis of ECOWAS power infrastructure integration schemes as a model for regional integration in Africa |
| title_fullStr | A critical analysis of ECOWAS power infrastructure integration schemes as a model for regional integration in Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | A critical analysis of ECOWAS power infrastructure integration schemes as a model for regional integration in Africa |
| title_short | A critical analysis of ECOWAS power infrastructure integration schemes as a model for regional integration in Africa |
| title_sort | critical analysis of ecowas power infrastructure integration schemes as a model for regional integration in africa |
| topic | Infrastructure deficit Inter-governmentalism Internaltional trade Legal and Institutional Framework Power pool Productive capacity Power infrastructure Regional integration Supranational institutions UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/43673 |