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scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic …-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development … programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115722
they move from relatively controlled and closed economies, to more open and liberalized economies with wider regional trade … arrangements, deepening trade cooperation, and expanding duty-free areas. The effects on trade and customs administration of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207702
scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic …-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development … programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435379
scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic …-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development … programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010426539
Market integration is often associated with economic growth spillovers, to the extent that strengthened trade linkages … data approach to analyze the extent to which Africa and its major regional groupings have been able to generate shared … and a large rate of return to physical capital. The results also suggest that space has more to do with bilateral trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470693
This paper examines the impact of trade facilitation on intra-African trade. The authors examine the role of trade … infrastructure on trade between African countries. They also consider how regional trade agreements relate to intra-African trade … flows. Using trade data from 2003 to 2004, they find that improvement in ports and services infrastructure promise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005116508
Market integration is often associated with economic growth spillovers, to the extent that strengthened trade linkages … data approach to analyze the extent to which Africa and its major regional groupings have been able to generate shared … and a large rate of return to physical capital. The results also suggest that space has more to do with bilateral trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427658
This paper examines the determinants and trade effects of the South Asian Preferential Trading Arrangement (SAPTA …) using empirical methods. An empirical specification of the gravity model is developed to analyze the determinants of trade … flows for the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) countries. The need for maintaining the primacy of economic integration in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010840163
Nations (ASEAN) free trade agreements (FTAs). The move towards the ASEAN Economic Community by 2015 and the attempts to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010840235
Over the past two decades, Tanzania has embarked on a marked liberalization of its trade regime. The Government wants … higher economic efficiency, productivity and international competitiveness. This study reviews the trade policy situation in … of domestic trade policy, examines regional integration efforts, and identifies priorities for the attention of policy …
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