REGIONAL INTEGRATION IN AFRICA: DYNAMICS OF INTRA-REGIONAL TRADE 1990-2015

The paper studies the changing role of regional communities in the formation of trade flows of intra-regional trade of Africa in the last 25 years. It’s revealed that the growth of intra-regional trade turnover of the majority of regional integration groupings reduction of the share in world’s trade and the growth of intra-regional trade turnover. Commodity structure of integration groupings in intra-regional trade is more diversified, than in international trade