The global financial system has witnessed rapid growth and substantial structural change duringthe last ten years leading to globalisation of financial markets. The integration of financial markets hasaccentuated the rapid flow of capital across borders as well as magnified the contagious...

The recent advances in information technology are becoming central to the process of socio-economic development. Information technology offers new ways of exchanging information, and transacting business, changes the nature of the financial and other service sectors and provides efficient means...

The main objective of this paper is to present a mapping of trade-relatedbottlenecks in the EAC/COMESA region to eligible aid-for-trade (AFT)categories, and to articulate a strategy for mobilising significant amounts of aidfor trade. To do so, the paper reviews the constraints to trade in...