The main objective of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) is to stimulate economic growth in participating countries … through increased trade, economies of scale, knowledge and technology transfer. Using a panel data over the period 1979 to … 2018, this paper examines the contribution of regional trade integration (RTI) to economic growth and income convergence in …

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 …

share of its total imports. However, Madagascar''s trade and production pattern would change and benefit the textile and …

This paper analyzes the role of regional arrangements in trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) performance in the … Baltics. While progress with transition is a key determinant of trade and FDI performance, regional arrangements with Western … Europe have helped develop trade and transfer of technology, but have not yet led to export-related foreign direct investment …

and began to integrate rapidly with the world economy. With the country’s recent accession to the World Trade Organization …

the gravity model and focusing on two samples, the world and Africa. Our empirical findings suggest that, in principle …, membership in a currency union should benefit Africa as much as it does the rest of the world. In addition, we find evidence from … both samples that the effect of currency unions on trade is large, almost a doubling; currency unions are associated with …

The paper characterizes trade exposure and regional integration in six ASEAN economies during 1997-2008. For this, the …

This paper analyzes trade in the Caribbean community (CARICOM) using a gravity model framework. The paper seeks to shed … light on the dynamics of trade among CARICOM member countries, as well with the rest of world over 1980–99. Overall, the … results show that intra-CARICOM trade has increased, suggesting that further regional integration is desirable. At the same …

The popular impression that Africa has not integrated into world trade, as suggested by the evolution in simple … lends support to the popular view of disintegration. Africa, especially Francophone Africa, is currently under …-exploiting its trading opportunities and has witnessed disintegration over time, a trend that is most pronounced in its trade with …

the North-American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This paper uses a global, multisector, computable … the automotive, textiles and apparel sectors, more liberalized agricultural trade, and other trade facilitation measures …. The results show that together these provisions would adversely affect trade in the automotive, textiles and apparel …