The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has been implementing a work programme supporting small-scale traders, through the COMESA Simplified Trade Regime (STR) and COMESA Trade Information Desks (TIDs) at key border crossings in…
The study uses country level panel data covering the period 2000 to 2014 to investigate the impact of remittances on the GDP per capita in 19 member countries of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern African (COMESA) region. The one-step…
This study uses country level panel data to investigate the impact of short term foreign capital flows on the Gross Domestic Product per Capita in 19 member countries of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) over the 2000-2014…
The book is divided into 8 chapters each written by a different author. The first chapter by Seth Gor assessing the extent of deep integration within EAC by focusing on Kenya's trade in agricultural commodities. The second chapter by Tabitha…
FOREWORD
The School of Economics at the University of Nairobi was awarded the WTO Chairs Program in 2010 and decided to use 75% of the yearly grants on research. This book which is the first volume is the final output of research carried out by some…
I. Introduction A former professor of mine was fond of telling us, “Beware of men who ask binary questions because such men already know the answers they want to get”. When Singapore first started negotiating our first free trade agreements (FTAs),…
ASEAN IIAs: Conserving Regulatory Sovereignty While Promoting the Rule of Law? by M. Ewing-Chow and G.R. Fischer
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has traditionally been regarded as a group of states operating on an ad hoc basis through informal understandings that impose no legally binding obligations. ASEAN’s informal approach is reflected…
The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is the first Multilateral trade agreement to cover trade in services. Its creation was one of the major achievements of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations from 1986 to 1993, whose results became…
We have witnessed the resurgence of regional development in terms of regional economic integration groupings at the global level over the past decades. The fundamental objectives for the formation of these sub regional and regional integration…