Download or read book The Free Trade Area of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa written by Victor Murinde and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last ten years, while GATT and (later) WTO were actively advocating the doctrine of free trade, the world witnessed unprecedented formation of regional trading blocs. Focusing on the prospects and challenges of the free trade area of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the question of regional trade integration, the book also combines in-depth theoretical and empirical analysis with leading edge discussion of institutional and policy issues from a variety of African economies. This text makes a timely contribution not only to our understanding of the prospects and challenges of regional trading arrangements in Africa but also to the paradigm of regional trade integration in developing countries. Systematically structured, with thematically linked chapters and rigorous referencing, it is an essential guide for an international audience of academics, researchers, students and practitioners in International Trade, International Economics, Development Finance and Development Economics.
Download or read book Towards a Common Market for Eastern and Southern African States written by Preferential Trade Area of Eastern and Southern African States. Authority. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Compliance with International Trade Obligations written by Henry Mutai and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new book deals with the formation and regulation of regional trade agreements in the context of the WTO legal regime and Eastern and Southern African countries, specifically those nations that make up the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). Despite a poor track record, regional integration has for a long time been, and remains, the preferred path to economic development and poverty alleviation among developing countries in Africa. Regional integration undoubtedly holds great promise for developing nations in Africa. Many African countries stand to gain from pooling their meager resources and thus being able to participate more meaningfully in the international arena. However, the rhetoric surrounding integration has not been matched by actions and the record of trade liberalization has been weak. Substantive action appears to be taking a back seat to formal statements and declarations. This book consequently addresses four related critical issues: (1) compliance with rules and regime design, (2) the relationship between regionalism and multilateralism, (3) the legal regime created by Article XXIV and the Enabling Clause of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and (4) the COMESA legal regime. Product highlights Provides readers with expert perspective on regional trade agreements, an area of growing concern to practitioners, academics, and government officials. Will squarely address a current lack of actionable analysis, applying an international relations perspective to the analysis of regional trade integration.
Download or read book Common Market for Eastern and Southern African Countries written by Luwam Dirar and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The preferential trade agreement of Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) was formed in 1982 with the objective of achieving deeper integration. In 1994 COMESA member states agreed to form a free trade agreement. The free trade agreement came into effect after nine member states ratified it. In 2004, Rwanda and Burundi joined the free trade agreement and increased the membership size to 11. In 2009 COMESA was transformed into a customs union. The purpose of the article is to analyse how formation of the COMESA customs union affects the current state of multiplicity of membership in Southern and Eastern African countries. The article argues that multiplicity of membership hinders deeper integration. Based on the assumption that deeper regional integration can play a role in the development project of Eastern and Southern African countries, the article tries to make a cursory review of the overlap of membership among COMESA, Southern African Development Community (SADC), Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and East African Community (EAC) states. It tries to draw policy choices of the way forward to end the multiplicity of membership. The analysis of this article is based on the percentile of each member state's rate of export. It is not a percentile of the total regional exports. Not all COMESA member states have been analysed in this article. The article mainly focuses on those COMESA member states that treat COMESA as their main trading block in Africa and that also have multiple memberships in SADC, SACU and EAC.
Download or read book Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa COMESA written by Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trade and Investment in Southern Africa written by C. Chipeta and published by Sapes Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Southern Africa Regional Institute for Policy Studies"--Ser. t.p.
Download or read book Treaty Establishing the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern African States PTA written by Yohannes Gebremariam and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa written by Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Draft Principles for the Establishment of a Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern African States as the First Step Towards the Creation of a Subregioal Common Market written by Council of Ministers of Trade, Finance and Planning of Eastern and Southern African States. Extraordinary Conference and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessing the Impact of the EU SA Free Trade Agreement on the Member States of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa COMESA written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Determinants of Intra Regional Trade Flows in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa written by Tolessa Shanko Kerore and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2019 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, grade: 4.00 (very good), course: Governance and Regional Integration - Trade integration, language: English, abstract: This study investigated the determinants of intra-regional trade within the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) region, with a specific focus on export trade from the period 2000 to 2016 by utilizing panel data. The study used trade intensity index to measure the intensification of trade among member states and employed an augmented gravity model to identify factors affecting intra-COMESA trade flows using OLS, Random effect and Poisson Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood (PPML) estimators. The results from the Trade Intensity Index (TII) measure indicate that although the intra-COMESA trade remains low for most of the members, the intensity result appear to increase at slow rate at regional level. The analysis indicates that the trade strength of intra-COMESA exports increased from 11 percent in 2000 to 13.6 percent in 2016 at regional level. More specifically, Egypt and Kenya have expanded their export trade among other members of COMESA, while Libya has the smallest export trade share followed by Eretria. The results from gravity model showed that other factors remaining constant, export trade flows within COMESA region are significantly influenced by Regional Trade Agreement (RTA), distance between members, adjacency, land lockedness, common language, electoral democracy, economic size, population size and overlapping memberships at different magnitude for each variable. Using PPML the estimation result shows that distance, economic size of the importer and adjacency of members are the most significant variables explaining export volume among members. It is recommended that COMESA members need to invest on complementary products (export diversification) where they have comparative advantage through identification of p
Download or read book Assessing Regional Integration in Africa V written by and published by UN. This book was released on 2012 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth of the series (ARIA/V) has come at a time of renewed enthusiasm for shortening the period of the vision of the Abuja Treaty. Its overall objective is to provide an analytical research publication that defines frameworks for African Governments, the African Union and the Regional Economic Communities, towards accelerating the establishment of the African Common Market through: the speedy removal of all tariff and non-tariff barriers, obstacles to free movement of people, investments and factors of production in general across Africa, and through fast-tracking the creation of an African continental Free Trade Area
Download or read book Protocol on the Rules of Origin for Products to be Traded Between the Member States of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa written by Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comesa and Sadc written by Padamja Khandelwal and published by INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regional integration has been seen in Africa as a means of encouraging trade and securing economies of scale. This paper examines in detail the prospects and challenges for trade expansion in the two most prominent arrangements in eastern and southern Africa: the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It finds that possibilities of growth in intraregional trade may be limited, but that the two arrangements offer opportunities for member countries to gain policy credibility for trade reforms and tariff liberalization and to address structural weaknesses. In this regard, the negotiation of the Economic Partnership Agreements with the European Union can also have a significant impact.
Download or read book Economic Integration and Development in Africa written by Henry Kyambalesa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debates over what African economic integration and development actually entails continue across international economic organizations, national governments and NGOs. Despite the glare of media attention and the position this issue has on international political agendas, few comprehensive accounts exist that fully examine why this process will be inevitable in the 21st century and how integration of national economies can be attuned to attaining the socio-economic goals and aspirations of member-countries. This book addresses this problem. It combines theory with application, enumerating the imperatives and initiatives governments will be forced to confront; providing insights for educators and students in African development, for policy makers in African governments, and for inter-governmental organizations.
