Partnership for African Economic Growth and Opportunity

There is a remarkable consensus as expressed by U.S. and Sub-Saharan African (SSA) leaders at the recent African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Forum and the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) Business Summit: their partnership has accomplished much but more needs to be done to promote this growing relationship and improve African competitiveness. The Obama Administration should consider implementing a broad-based economic growth initiative, focused on trade, regional integration, and development to complement current efforts on climate and food security.

Manchester Trade has developed a proposal to address these joint US-SSA concerns and to address the critical need for an initiative to promote a deepened US-SSA partnership to the benefit of both. This proposal is called the Partnership for African Economic Growth and Opportunity (PAEGO).