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"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,...
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tariff. The governments of the member countries are working to achieve deep integration in key areas. Clearly, successfully …
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The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) is the most unequal region in the world. While there has been some progress in recent years, inequality has remained almost stagnant in the most unequal countries. Using an innovative framework, this report provides a systematic and comprehensive...
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, the guide focuses on the development of the internal market, particularly in the areas of financial market integration and …
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"The main objective of this paper is to provide an ex-ante assessment of the poverty and income distribution impacts of the Central American Free Trade Area agreement on Nicaragua. The authors use a general equilibrium macro model to simulate trade reform scenarios and estimate their price...
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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 …
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"The authors examine the economic case for the South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) Agreement signed on January 6, 2004 by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives. They start with a detailed analysis of the preferential trading arrangements in South Asia to look at...
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