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The Cotonou Agreement and its implications for the regional trade agenda in Eastern and Southern Africa
De la Rocha, Manuel - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523345
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The Business Environment in Southern Africa : Issues in Trade and Market Integration - Summary
World Bank - 2012
This report assesses some of the key barriers to greater trade and factor market integration in the Southern Africa … integration. This report assesses the roles that cross-country differences in business environments have had in impeding cross …-border trade flows and the cross-border integration of credit markets and the labor market based on the analysis of microeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550753
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Regional Trade in Food Staples : Prospects for Stimulating Agricultural Growth and Moderation Food Security Crises in Eastern and Southern Africa
World Bank - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552956
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Trade and Regional Cooperation between Afghanistan and its Neighbors
World Bank - 2013
The report envisages significant, medium-term benefits for Afghanistan and its neighbors from trade policy liberalization, from country-by-country reforms in trade logistics, and, especially within Afghanistan, from road rehabilitation and building a commercially-oriented enabling environment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559182
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Regional economic integration in the Middle East and North Africa : beyond trade reform
Rouis, Mustapha - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393829
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Does regionalism affect trade liberalization toward non-members ?
Estevadeordal, Antoni - 2008
"This paper examines the effect of regionalism on unilateral trade liberalization using industry-level data on applied most-favored nation tariffs and bilateral preferences for ten Latin American countries from 1990 to 2001. The findings show that preferential tariff reduction in a given sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521008
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The impact of regional trade agreements and trade facilitation in the Middle East and North Africa region
Dennis, Allen Curtis - 2006
the region. Using the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model and database, both intra-regional integration and … integration with the European Union are observed to have a favorable impact on welfare in the MENA region. The welfare gains from … integrating with the European Union are observed to be at least twice as much as intra-regional integration. Furthermore, these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522223
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Market presence, contestability, and the terms-of-trade effects of regional integration
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2001
How firms react to a given shock may depend on the degree to which rivals are present and on whether potentially viable entrants to that market exist. A preferred supplier market presence and threat of entry lessen a nonmember country's price reaction to most-favored-nation trade liberalization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010524100
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Contemporary migration to South Africa : a regional development issue
Kabwe-Segatti, Aurelia Wa (contributor);  … - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393812
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International benchmarking of infrastructure performance in the Southern African Customs Union countries
Bogetic, Željko - 2006
"The paper provides a first, systematic benchmarking of infrastructure performance in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) countries (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Swaziland) in four major sectors-electricity, water and sanitation, information and communication technology,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522075