Abstract
West Africa encompasses countries of both immigration and emigration as well as countries that combine both, and countries that serve as migrant transit routes. This chapter focuses, first, on efforts to operationalize the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Protocol on Free Movement of Persons, Residence and Establishment and the progress made, as well as challenges encountered in creating a borderless sub-region. It also details the attempts to boost intra-regional trade, especially by introducing the trade liberalization scheme, and follows this with a discussion of the challenges and prospects for intra-regional mobility, intra-regional trade and development.
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Adepoju, A. (2015). Operationalizing the ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement of Persons: Prospects for Sub-Regional Trade and Development. In: Panizzon, M., Zürcher, G., Fornalé, E. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of International Labour Migration. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137352217_18
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