Using detailed global trade and novel Multi-Region Input-Output (MRIO) data, this paper examines the East African … Community’s (EAC) global and regional integration through trade, global, and regional value chains (GVCs and RVCs). With … global and regional trade and production networks at the aggregate, bilateral, sectoral, and bilateral-sectoral levels. The …

Abstract Using a new set of measures of concentration of trade, I suggest that the opening up of trade to date has been … greatly exaggerated. At least judging on the basis of trade concentration, agriculture and service sectors should barely be … the global openness league table. Since there is a strong correlation between concentration of trade and poor economic …

communication technology - contributes to integration by reducing transaction costs and facilitating intraregional trade and … Asia will bring significant opportunities for industrial development in India and trade potential with South and East Asian …

sub-Saharan Africa. In this context the fast growing south-south cooperation's, specific transregional free trade …

Using detailed global trade and novel Multi-Region Input-Output (MRIO) data, this paper examines the East African … Community's (EAC) global and regional integration through trade, global, and regional value chains (GVCs and RVCs). With … global and regional trade and production networks at the aggregate, bilateral, sectoral, and bilateral-sectoral levels. The …

with the abovementioned countries. RCEP is the largest free trade agreement and can be a catalyst for economic development … to the discussion on RCEP by providing a policy tool that calculates the impact of the trade agreement on exports and GDP …

Market integration is often associated with economic growth spillovers, to the extent that strengthened trade linkages … and a large rate of return to physical capital. The results also suggest that space has more to do with bilateral trade … West African States, which happen to register larger intraregional trade shares, contrast with the absence of such an …

This paper examines the factors influencing intra-Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) trade by … empirically investigating whether the Free Trade Area (FTA) contributed to trade growth from 1997 to 2015. Gravity models for … exports and imports were estimated to identify the factors influencing intra-COMESA trade. The results show that the FTA has …

's supranationality is unthinkable elsewhere. This paper discusses how Europe overcame the specific problem of overlapping free trade …