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…
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…
Foreign direct investment is believed to promote exports of host countries by augmenting domestic capital for exports, helping transfer technology and new products for exports. It also facilitates access to new and large foreign markets, provides…
Trade in agricultural commodities has enormous variations in terms of impacts – be they on poverty, gender or the environment. This underlines the significance of careful analysis in the choice of trade development path for the sector and calls for…
The term non-tariff measures (NTMs) is defined to include export restraints and production and export subsidies, or measures with similar effect, not just import restraints. In Kenya many internal processes by trade facilitation agencies have been…
On the 20th day of November 2009, in the city of Arusha, Tanzania, presidents Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete (Tanzania), Pierre Nkurunziza (Burundi), Mwai Kibaki (Kenya), Paul Kagame (Rwanda), and Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (Uganda) jointly signed the Protocol…
Informal Cross-Border Trade in agricultural commodities between Kenya and her neighbours has been growing with time, but knowledge of its magnitude, determinants and consequences remain largely inadequate. This has acted to inhibit formulation of…