Analyst: AGOA has failed to live up to its potential to boost development in Africa

The African Growth and Opportunity Act has not fulfilled its potential to significantly boost the continent’s development and manufacturing capabilities, says a longtime Africa analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Cameron Hudson, senior fellow at CSIS’ Africa Program and a former director for African affairs at the National Security Council, says the original purpose behind AGOA, a unilateral trade-preference program set to expire at the end of September, has been lost. “Africa has not turned this program...