Part 1: Introducing Regional Integration.-The Economic Value of Regional Integration in Africa -- Current Account Im(balances) and Adjustments to Targets for Regional Integration in West Africa: One Step Forward, Two Steps Backwards -- Obstacles to Strengthening Economic Integration in the West...

Introduction -- Trade potential and bottlenecks in East Africa: a gravity approach -- Trade Complementarities between Europe and Tanzania -- The Effect of the tripartite free trade area on trade flow in Southern and Eastern Africa -- Investment climate and international integration of firms in...

Introduction by the Editors -- Empirical Estimates of Inverted Duty Structure and Effective Rate of Protection- The case of India -- Does Past Performance in Home Market Affect Export Participation of New Exporters? Evidence from Indian Firms -- A Panel Data Analysis of Indo-Africa Trade: A...

Education: No Take Off Without Adult Literacy -- Electricity: Power to the People -- Sex and Money: How Many Babies Are Too Many? -- Debt: A Debt Crisis Is Probably Unavoidable in a Bid to Create Jobs -- Demographics and Growth: Who Booms, When? -- What the Future Holds: Democracy, Corruption,...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of both national and regional trade facilitation capacities, issues, challenges and lessons, with a special interest in sustainably advancing West Africa’s regional trade facilitation agenda. It examines the contributions of trade facilitation...

This book provides a study on the impact of Brexit on international competitiveness and in doing so, presents a theoretical account of regional disintegration. In recent decades, the theory of regional economic integration has expanded following growing integration processes taking place not...

Introduction: Beyond Gridlock? Challenges and Prospects for Global Economic Governance -- Parallel Orders? Emerging Powers, Western Discontent, and the Future of Global Economic Governance -- Networks Decentralizing Authority in Global Economic Governance -- Global Economic Governance and the...

1. Introduction: Examining the Belt and Road Initiative in the China Pakistan Context; Jawad Syed and Yung-Hsiang Ying -- 2. China's Belt and Road Initiative: A Pakistani Perspective; Jawad Syed -- 3. Economic Assessment of CPEC: The Case of a Power Project; Syed M. Hasan, Hamza Ali, Fatima Azmat...

This book examines the impact of financing on Africa’s economic development. By exploring various financial instruments including the role of alternative sources of funding like migrant remittances and illicit flows, it analyses the role of financing for Africa’s macroeconomic development...

Introduction -- Section I: Rapid Entry and Development of Enterprises -- Section II: Rapid Land Conversion -- Section III: Financial Deepening and Financial Stability -- Section IV: Learning Through Opening Up -- Section V: Proactive Macroeconomic Management.