Regional Economic Gains and Losses of the Tripartite Agreement

Kenya - 30 November 2012

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 schemes are to enable the economies of the member countries participating in such arrangement to achieve, individually and collectively higher levels of economic development that would have otherwise proved elusive. The gains and losses of these integration movements particularly the Tripartite Agreement signed to enhance these developments is the thrust of this paper.

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