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…
This concept paper has discussed the World Trade Organisation ( WTO) – on going Doha round negotiations on Non Agricultural Market Access (NAMA) and flanked out the areas that need to be researched on, with an ultimate objectives of informing the…
The tourism sector has become an important sector towards contributing to overall development in many countries, both in terms of foreign exchange earnings, employment generation and so do the region’s domestic product (GDP). The World market for…
The global financial crisis of 2008-2009 had various channels of transmission to Kenya and one of them was through remittances. However, Data from the Central Bank of Kenya shows that remittances from the Diaspora only reduced for the first six…
Economic crisis of 2008-2009 promoted awareness of the necessity to transform in particular the contemporary international trading system. With respect to trade policies the proposals aiming at achieving of more sustainable and efficient…
For the overwhelming majority of intergovernmental economic organizations (IEOs) the latest economic crisis has provided substantial additional incentive to adjust their performance to the whole set of challenges facing global community during first…
The article was publsihed in the Baltic Rim Economies. Quarterly Review. 28 Febuary 2011
The paper was written within a framework of the WCP
Artcle published in the Baltic Rim Economies. Bimonthly Review. ISSUE NO. 2, 31 May 2012.
The paper was written within a framework of the WCP
“Russia’s Accession to the WTO: Major Commitments, Possible Implications”, is written by a team from the Faculty of Economics at St Petersburg State University that was led by Professor Sergey F. Sutyrin, Head of the World Economy Department and the…