Regional integration in Sub-Saharan Africa: past experience and future prospects

Foroutan, Faezeh

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“…Treating these as if they collection of bilateral agreements is a vast oversimplification. For example, it implies that you analyze the decision of Rwanda and Burundi to join the CEPGL 4 , while disregarding the fact that the Democratic Republic of Congo is also a partner 4 CEPGL = Economic Communityof the Great Lakes.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Creating a unified African market means circumventing or breaking down many barriers to trade: a deficient transportation network, different legal systems, different languages... even in the best case scenario, the costs of unifying these markets outweigh the benefits in the short and mediumlong term [3]. African integration has been found to have no effect on intra-African trade [4], and studies that did find an effect concluded that any increases were driven by trade diversion [5 and 6]. Berthelon [7] concluded that in the best case, integration among developing countries only raises the growth rate of the biggest country.…”

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Rent seeking and regional integration agreements

Standaert¹,

Rayp²

2011

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Abstract-This paper explores the motives behind the formation of intra-African regional integration agreements (RIAs). We aim to see whether rent seeking can be identified as a statistically significant driving force of African integration. The traditional reason for economic integration, the static and dynamic effects, predict no, or even a negative effect on welfare. Moreover, many of the new regionalism theories are conditional on strong economic integration. Rent seeking behavior and the regime boosting hypothesis are two exceptions. Not only can they credibly explain the proliferation of African trade agreements in the absence of a positive effect on welfare, they can also explain the lack of progress in clearing away the many obstructions to regional trade. However, in spite of the anecdotal evidence, we cannot find convincing evidence that rent seeking behavior has been a motive for African integration. Corruption is insignificant, regardless of the way of testing, or the corruption indicator used. The factors that seem to explain African integration are all geographical, not economic nor political.

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Rent seeking and regional integration agreements

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Rayp²

2011

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“…Even when the latter becomes a priority, often times, incomplete shallow integration limits the prospect of deeper integration. Consequently, it has been argued that the developing countries have not reaped the full potential advantages from integration in terms of export diversification, 23 increased international competitiveness, more efficient allocation of resources, or significant stimulation of production and investment in the region (Yeats, 1998;Foroutan, 1993;Nogues and Quintanilla, 1993). On the one hand, the lesser (more cautious) degree of implementation among developing countries is related to their economic situation, with sometimes large fluctuations in trade flows resulting from exchange rate movements and relative macroeconomic instability.…”

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North, South, East, West: What's best? Modern RTAs and Their Implications for the Stability of Trade Policy

Cernat

Laird

2003

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThe objective of this paper was to assess the extent to which regional trade agreements (RTAs) could prevent protectionist 'backslidings' and contribute to the smooth functioning of the multilateral trading system. The paper examined a number of trade policy instruments (antidumping, subsidies and countervailing duties, safeguard measures, technical barriers to trade and standards, customs procedures and rules of origin) and trade-related policies (trade-related investment measures, competition policy, movement of labour), as well as dispute settlement mechanisms. The evidence suggests that although many RTAs have put in place various policy-stabilizing mechanisms, they are unevenly applied and 'post-modern', hidden protectionist 'backslidings' such as antidumping practices are still present even in advanced North-South or East-West RTAs.

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“…The 1960s and 1970s saw the emergence of many regional organisations in Africa, but sadly few have produced tangible results. The longstanding recognition of the needs and benefits of regional integration has spawned the proliferation of regional economies and protocols across the continent (Senghor 1990;Onwuka and Sesay 1985;Foroutan 1993).…”

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3 - The ECOWAS Court and the Politics of Access to Justice in West Africa

Banjo¹

2007

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Regional integration in Sub-Saharan Africa: past experience and future prospects

Cited by 103 publications

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Rent seeking and regional integration agreements

Rent seeking and regional integration agreements

North, South, East, West: What's best? Modern RTAs and Their Implications for the Stability of Trade Policy

3 - The ECOWAS Court and the Politics of Access to Justice in West Africa

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