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Author : Manuel Guilherme Júnior
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ISBN 13 : 9783941928725
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (287 download)
Download or read book ˜Theœ COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area written by Manuel Guilherme Júnior and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeremy Raguain
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ISBN 13 : 9783668985452
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (854 download)
Download or read book What are the Prospects and Challenges of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area? written by Jeremy Raguain and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic Paper from the year 2017 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Globalization, Political Economics, grade: 77, University of Cape Town, course: Regionalism in Africa, language: English, abstract: Hailed by Dr. Calestous Juma and Dr. Francis Mangeni "as the most significant event in Africa since the establishment of the Organization of African Unity (OAU)" the T-FTA is understood by many to be a vital step towards establishing the African Economic Community (AEC) (Dari, 2015: 38; Juma & Mangeni, 2015). If successfully ratified and implemented the T-FTA would see the merging of Africa's thee largest and most successful regional economic communities (REC) - SADC, COMESA and EAC. Consequently, the T-FTA would cover approximately 632 million Africans have a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of between $1.3- $1.6 trillion and a land area that could fit both the United States and China. Undoubtedly, a successfully implemented T-FTA would unleash Africa's anaemic intra-regional trade level which remains stagnant at 12% (Juma & Mangeni, 2015). Increasing Africa's intra-regional trade is regarded as a pivotal part of developing its underdeveloped and disconnected economies. Considering the T-FTA's potential it is hard not to see Juma's and Mangeni's point. However, others are not as expectant. Reflecting on how the T-FTA has repeatedly missed its deadlines and considering the varying degrees of failure African regionalism has had in cases such as SADC, COMESA and EAC, it is evident that the T-FTA has a long and uncertain road ahead. Therefore, to comprehensively discuss and evaluate T-FTA's potential this essay looks at Africa's history of regional integration (RI). To do so it begins by defining and contextualising RI, regionalisation and regionalism in Africa. The essay then deliberates over 'new' regionalism's variants in Africa, discerning that the T-FTA and its RECs represent 'open' regionalism's clear dominance. Subsequently, the discussion ana
Author : Lawrence Othieno
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Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Prospects and Challenges in the Formation of the COMESA-EAC and SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area written by Lawrence Othieno and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The stalemate of the multilateral trade system in addressing key trade and trade related issues over the years have mounted pressure on World Trade Organisation (WTO) member states to search for alternative solutions. This pressure has directed countries' attention and efforts towards bilateral and regional trade arrangements as an immediate intervention to resolve some of the stagnated issues at the multilateral level....With regard to the proposed tripartite Free Trade Area (T-FTA) among COMESA-EAC and SADC member states, it is one among the many regional economic communities (RECs) that have emerged over the years. This paper tries to examine some of the complexities and inter-linkages in reaching a tripartite free trade agreement in serviceds and goods, as well as infrastructure development" --Abstract.
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Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (913 download)
Download or read book The COMESA, EAC and SADC Tri-partite Free Trade Agreement written by and published by . This book was released on 2012* with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tri-partite initiative in and for Africa has been accompanied by high levels of optimism since its political endorsement in 2008. It provides for an opportunity to resolve a host of problems with regards to regional integration in Eastern and Southern Africa. The overall aim of this study is to explore the prospects and challenges towards realising the Tri-partite Free Trade Area (T-FTA) in and for Africa. This study is pragmatic and implicitly seeks to uncover how the T-FTA could contribute to the African Regional Integration Project (ARIP), given the challenges that regional integration face in Africa. Regional integration has a long and rich history in Africa, which started at the inception of independence. Unfortunately, Africa's attempts at regional integration have been weak since the start and persist in its superficial nature with little developmental impact. The reasons for the lack of meaningful integration in Africa are wide-ranging and span national, regional and system level analytical viewpoints. They encompass areas such as developmental levels, political will, respect for regional architecture, overlapping membership and the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). These factors impact on the integration process in Africa and explain in varied ways why there has been little comprehensive economic integration. The starting point was to define the complex concept of regional integration. The dominant factors that define and affect regional integration in this study arc that it is a state-based exercise, driven by economic integration, and influenced by the global political economy of the day. It was determined that Africa has adapted its regional integration strategies according to the shifts and influences in the global political economy on states, emanating from the post WWII period to the present day.
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Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (65 download)
Download or read book From Cape to Cairo written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Claire A. Amuhaya
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030967050
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)
Download or read book A Century of East African Integration written by Claire A. Amuhaya and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive analysis of regional integration in East Africa in the last century, reflecting the general trends of integration processes in the East Africa sub-region with a focus on the East African Community. Particular attention is paid to the cyclicality of integration dynamics, as well as the analysis of the interconnection and competition between different regional organizations in East Africa. In this context, the specificity of the so-called overlapping membership of African states in regional organizations with similar roles but conflicting treaties and mandates is explored. This situation to a certain extent affects the relations of states in the region with external actors specifically trade negotiations with EU that the book comprehensively analyses. This book therefore offers a deeper understanding of the processes of regional integration in East Africa that had been missed before, which reflects the general integration dynamics on the African continent.
Author : Jana Riedel
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Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book New Panel Data Evidence on Sub-Saharan Trade Integration written by Jana Riedel and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite FTA, formed in 2011, is supposed to be a milestone towards Africa's continental trade integration. This study analyzes the impact of regional integration among the Tripartite countries on their bilateral imports before that date to evaluate the latest integration efforts. We estimate an extended gravity model on a large panel of 51 African countries using yearly observations from 1995 to 2010. We proxy existing formal trade barriers by sample average data of tariffs on imports from the world as well as indicator variables for the membership in regional FTAs. We control for various other potential determinants of trade and discuss different sets of effects. We emphasize that modeling importer- and exporter-year effects matters for the results of our coefficients of interest. The estimates are not robust with regard to the estimation technique. We detect a direct positive impact on imports when joining one of the three FTAs in each of the loglinear specifications. However, an FTA status does not show a clear-cut import enhancing effect in the Poisson regressions. Whereas tariffs are not significantly correlated with imports in the loglinear framework, they show a strong negative correlation throughout the multiplicative models including several robustness checks.
Author : Francis Mangeni
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (114 download)
Download or read book The Case for the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Arrangement written by Francis Mangeni and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : UN
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Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
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
Author : Vimbai Lisa Michelle Jana
Publisher : Anchor Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 3960676905
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Adopting a Harmonized Regional Approach to Customs Regulation for the Tripartite Free Trade Agreement written by Vimbai Lisa Michelle Jana and published by Anchor Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three regional economic communities (RECs) in Eastern and Southern Africa are the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Together, they have recognised the need to work towards regional cooperation aimed at the eventual creation of a single regional economic community or Tripartite Free Trade Agreement (TFTA). This will replace the existent RECs in Eastern and Southern Africa to which the member states of these two regions have multiple membership. The TFTA region comprises a total of 27 member states which have a combined population of 527 million people and a combined gross domestic product (GDP) of USD 624 billion. These statistics translate into a potential regional economic powerhouse for Eastern and Southern Africa. One of the major goals of the TFTA is to harmonise trade arrangements among the three RECs, improve the movement of goods and persons within the single integrated region, facilitate the joint implementation of regional infrastructure projects and enhance co-operation of member states. This is a laudable initiative by the member states of the three RECs and it is recognised that regional integration is the first step towards integration into a multilateral trading system. For the TFTA member states, it is crucial that there is an awareness to move towards a review of domestic customs legislation and policy and to develop regional, supranational legislation and regulations in order to gain a stronger competitive edge in the global market. This study shies away from proposing a „quick fix‟ or „instant benefit‟ to the harmonisation of TFTA member states customs legislative frameworks and policies and the development of a single automated, interoperable electronic customs system. Rather, it places its focus on long-term sustainable benefits which will be realised over time. The harmonisation of TFTA member state customs legislative policies and the resultant Information and Communications Technology (ICT) reforms to the customs processes of the TFTA member states, though not immediate or short-term, will strategically position the region to conduct business in an increasingly volume driven, fast paced, electronic global economy.
Author : Clarence Siziba
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Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Trade Dispute Settlement in the Tripartite Free Trade Area written by Clarence Siziba and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2015, the Heads of State and Government of COMESA, the EAC and SADC agreed to establish the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) extending from Cape to Cairo, encompassing all twenty-six members of the three groupings. While the TFTA negotiations are ongoing, it is necessary that member states are aware of their rights and obligations as well as the nature and power of the organs of the TFTA. This paper analyses dispute resolution bodies of the three regional economic communities making up the large trade bloc, in order to distil the most salient features which allow for effective dispute resolution. The study shows that it is necessary that regional judiciaries be allowed to operate independently and efficiently without undue interference from political elites, otherwise they stand to fail in executing their mandate.
Author : Michael Masiya
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Trade Trajectories of the East African Community (EAC) Within the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) written by Michael Masiya and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exploratory study examines the export potential of the East African Community (EAC) within the new African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and the impending COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA). The research aims to determine the EAC's export potential, identify key products with strong export potential, and recognize the challenges and opportunities present within this context. The EAC's active role in AfCFTA negotiations, both benefits and potential concerns associated with the AfCFTA for EAC member states, are presented. Preliminary analysis of EAC member countries (Uganda, Tanzania, and Burundi) highlights significant unrealized export potential, particularly within agricultural, mineral, light manufacturing, and textile sectors. The study underscores the need for comprehensive strategies and robust policies to optimize the EAC's export potential within the AfCFTA, serving as a valuable resource for policy and strategy development.
Author : Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319921800
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Innovation, Regional Integration, and Development in Africa written by Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume discusses the role of innovation and regional integration in economic development in Africa. Over the past five decades, post-colonial African countries have struggled to break loose from the trap of poverty and underdevelopment through the adoption of various development strategies at regional, national, and continental levels. However, the results of both national and regional efforts at advancing development on the continent have been mixed. Although the importance of agglomeration and fusion of institutions have long been recognized as possible path to achieving economic development in Africa, the approach to regionalism has been unduly focused on market integration, while neglecting other dimensions such as social policy, mobility of labor, educational policy, biotechnology, regional legislation, manufacturing, innovation, and science and technology. This volume investigates the link between innovation, regional integration, and development in Africa, arguing that the immediate and long term development of Africa lies not just in the structural transformation of its economies but in the advancement of scientific and innovation capacities. The book is divided into four parts. Part I addresses the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of innovation and regional integration in Africa. Part II presents case studies which examine how regional economic institutions are fostering innovation in Africa. Part III of the book deals with sectoral issues on innovation and integrated development in Africa. Part IV sets the future research on innovation, regional integration, and development in Africa. Combining theoretical analysis and a comparative, interdisciplinary approach, this volume is appropriate for researchers and students interested in economic development, political economy, African studies, international relations, agricultural science, and geography, as well as policymakers in regional economic communities and the African Union.
Author : Mr.Lisandro Abrego
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1513542370
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (135 download)
Download or read book The African Continental Free Trade Area: Potential Economic Impact and Challenges written by Mr.Lisandro Abrego and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2020-05-13 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political momentum towards Africa-wide free trade has been intensifying. In March 2018, over 40 countries signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement. Once fully implemented, the AfCFTA is expected to cover all 55 African countries, with a combined GDP of about US$2.2 trillion. This SDN takes stock of recent trade developments in Sub-Saharan Africa and assesses the potential benefits and costs of the AfCFTA, as well as challenges to its successful implementation. In addition to increased trade flows both in existing and new products, the AfCFTA has the potential to generate substantial economic benefits for African countries. These benefits include higher income arising from increased efficiency and productivity from improved resource allocation, higher cross-border investment flows, and technology transfers. Besides lowering import tariffs, to ensure these benefits, African countries will need reduce other trade barriers by making more efficient their customs procedures, reducing their wide infrastructure gaps, and improving their business climates. At the same time, policy measures should be taken to mitigate the differential impact of trade liberalization on certain groups as resources are reallocated in the economy and activities migrate to locations with comparatively lower costs.
Author : Juma Volter Mwapachu
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (87 download)
Download or read book COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Framework written by Juma Volter Mwapachu and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004498915
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Yearbook on the African Union Volume 1 (2020) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first edition of the Yearbook on the African Union. It is first and foremost an academic project that will provide an in-depth evaluation and analysis of the institution, its processes, and its engagements. Despite the increased agency in recent years of the African Union in general, and the AU Commission in particular, little is known – outside expert policy or niche academic circles – about the Union’s activities. This is the gap the Yearbook on the African Union wants to systematically bridge. It seeks to be a reference point for in-depth research, evidence-based policy-making and decision-making. Contributors are: Adekeye Adebajo, Habibu Yaya Bappah, Bruce Byiers, Annie Barbara Hazviyemurwi Chikwanha, Dawit Yohannes Wondemagegnehu, Katharina P.W. Döring, Jens Herpolsheimer, Jacob Lisakafu, Frank Mattheis, Henning Melber, Alphonse Muleefu, John N. Nkengasong, Edefe Ojomo, Awino Okech, Jamie Pring, Elizabeth Sidiropoulos, Tim Zajontz.
Author : Romain Wacziarg
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781788111492
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Trade Liberalization written by Romain Wacziarg and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling two-volume collection presents the major literary contributions to the economic analysis of the consequences of trade liberalization on growth, productivity, labor market outcomes and economic inequality. Examining the classical theories that stress gains from trade stemming from comparative advantage, the selection also comprises more recent theories of imperfect competition, where any potential gains from trade can stem from competitive effects or the international transmission of knowledge. Empirical contributions provide evidence regarding the explanatory power of these various theories, including work on the effects of trade openness on economic growth, wages, and income inequality, as well as evidence on the effects of trade on firm productivity, entry and exit. Prefaced by an original introduction from the editor, the collection will to be an invaluable research resource for academics, practitioners and those drawn to this fascinating topic.
