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Food Prices, Road Infrastructure, and Market Integration in Central and Eastern Africa

Brenton, Paul - 2017

Market integration is key to ensuring sufficient and stable food supplies. This paper assesses the impediments to market integration in Central and Eastern Africa for three food staples: maize, rice, and sorghum. The paper uses a large database on monthly consumer prices for 150 towns in 13...

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Regionalizing Infrastructure for Deepening Market Integration : The Case of East Africa

Kessides, Ioannis Nicolaos - 2017

The East African Community has long recognized that regional economic integration can yield significant welfare gains to its member states. To that end, the community has been making steady progress towards the removal of tariffs and quantitative restrictions to trade. Moreover, in recent years,...

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International Financial Integration of East Asia and Pacific

Didier, Tatiana - 2018

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of how economies in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region have been …

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Economic Integration Across Latin America : Evidence from Labor Markets, 1990-2013

Lederman, Daniel - 2017

assesses the degree to which Latin American labor markets are integrated. The results suggest that relative to East Asia, Latin …

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Poverty and Shared Prosperity Implications of Deep Integration in Eastern and Southern Africa

Balistreri, Edward J. - 2017

Evidence indicates that trade costs are a much more substantial barrier to trade than tariffs are, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper decomposes trade costs into: (i) trade facilitation, (ii) non-tariff barriers, and (iii) the costs of business services. The paper assesses the poverty...

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Integrating Border Regions : Connectivity and Competitiveness in South Asia

Calì, Massimiliano - 2017

Deeper regional integration can be beneficial especially for regions along international borders. It can open up new markets on opposite sides of borders and give consumers wider access to cheaper goods. This paper uses data from five contiguous districts of India, Nepal, and Bangladesh in the...

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An Economic Integration Zone for the East African Community : Exploiting Regional Potential and Addressing Commitment Challenges

Dobronogov, Anton - 2017

Integration in the East African Community offers significant opportunities not only to expand trade among member states, but more importantly to scale up regional production to take advantage of much larger global market opportunities. Special economic zones are a potentially valuable instrument...

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Economic Integration in the Lower Congo Region : Opening the Kinshasa-Brazzaville Bottleneck

Brülhart, Marius - 2017

This working paper assesses cross-border economic integration in the Lower Congo region. It focuses on the Kinshasa-Brazzaville conurbation, which is projected to become Africa's largest urban area by 2025, and is already serving as the gateway to large hinterlands. Despite their size and...

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Ecowas's Infrastructure : A Regional Perspective

Ranganathan, Rupa - 2017

Infrastructure improvements boosted growth in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) by one percentage point per capita per year during 1995-2005, primarily thanks to growth in information and communication technology. Deficient power infrastructure held growth back by 0.1...

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Trade Integration in East Asia : The Role of China and Production Networks

Haddad, Mona - 2016

integration of China has deepened production fragmentation in East Asia, countering fears of crowding out other countries for … international specialization. International production fragmentation in East Asia has intensified intraregional trade but has … significantly to growth in East Asia, they also breed vulnerabilities. They have not automatically led to technology spillovers and …

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