This is a study of contemporary international economic policy, with particular emphasis upon economic integration as a means of bringing about a faster rate of economic progress and of helping to overcome poverty.

This text brings together structural and analytical studies of 7 single African countries, together with two studies of groups of countries which, although politically separate, have in the past had close economic links. These countries are Algeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria and the Sudan.

This is an authoritative study of economic integration among the states of West Africa, focusing upon the issues and experience of the four main initiatives for regional integration in West Africa.

Now in its fourth edition, this introduction to the economics of regional integration among nation states has been completely revised to reflect developments since the mid-1980s and current policy initiatives.