Regional Economic Integration in Africa: An Introduction -- Part I: The Economic Regions in Africa -- The State of the Unions -- The Logical Sequence of Regional Economic Integration -- The Reality of African Trade Integration - Challenges of Implementation -- Regional Integration in Trade...

Preface -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview -- Chapter 2 The Trend of Deep Regional Integration -- Chapter 3 Which Aspect of Firm Performance is Important for the Choice of Globalization Mode?.-Chapter 4 Does Tobin’s q Matter for a Firm’s Choice of Globalization Mode?...

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...

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...

1 Framework of the SREB Initiative -- 2 Connectivity Construction -- 3 Trade and Investment Facilitation -- 4 Industrial Cooperation and Upgrading -- 5 Construction and Upgrading of Urbanization in Western China -- 6 Regionalization and Internationalization of Currency -- 7 Guarantee Mechanism...

Introduction -- External Market and Regional Industrialization -- Structural Characteristics of Major Regional Markets -- Evolution of the Asian Market Structure,- Cooperation and Development in Asia -- Changes in China’s Economic Relations in Asia -- Impact of China’s Rise on the Regional...

Introduction -- Section 1: Theoretical overview of China and BRI relations -- Narrating Models of Development - China and the EU between ‘Strategic Modernizer’ and ‘Rules-based Transformer’ -- Challenges and Opportunities in the EU-China Trade Relations -- From ‘International...

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...

This book explores how better governance can help Africa to achieve structural transformation (understood to be the reallocation of factors of production across and within sectors to better support inclusive development), which history has shown to be key to sustained, inclusive growth. The book...

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...