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…
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…
This book is an attempt to analyse global administrative law through the elaboration and examination of a number of different cases and case-studies. The architecture of its contents mirrors the characteristics of this field. In order to fully grasp…
The study explores the impact of trade liberalization on export and import growth in Uganda. A number of developing countries have opened up their own economies to take full advantage of the resultant opportunities for economic development through…
This paper considers the economics and trade law implications of diamond beneficiation in Botswana and, by extension, thoughout the SADC region. It explains the shift in policy and market position of De Beers which has moved from strident opponent…