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The treaty for the establishment of the East African Community (EAC) was signed in November 1999 by Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. The treaty, which entered into force in June 2000, aims a comprehensive integration process comprising of trade, economic, and political integration. The ultimate...
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Policy makers across East Africa realize that weak professional services are impeding growth in their countries. Recent studies have revealed a strong relationship between African firms' access to services and their productivity. The East African governments have now committed themselves to...
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This report focuses on growing trade in food staples in the Southern and Eastern African region of Africa as one of the largest growth opportunities available to African farmers. This paper examines the impact of regional trade in food staples, both for maintaining farmer incentives in surplus...
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Five East African countries Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda have made solid progress on integrating regionally in the East African Community (EAC) since 1999. Such advances are crucial, as integration in East Africa has the potential for higher than usual benefits: Burundi, Rwanda,...
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Five East African countries Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda have made solid progress on integrating regionally in the East African Community (EAC) since 1999. Such advances are crucial, as integration in East Africa has the potential for higher than usual benefits: Burundi, Rwanda,...
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"The apparently inexorable rise in the proportion of "missing girls" in much of East and South Asia has attracted much … ratios were the highest in Asia but peaked in the mid-1990s and normalized thereafter. Using census data, we examine whether …" phenomenon could be addressed in Asia. "--World Bank web site …
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(China)--and the recent reforms to them provide many potentially valuable lessons to East Asia's developing countries. All …
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countries in Asia and Australasia, and Canada and the United Kingdom. The authors find that the institutional factors which most …
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