This study analyses the impact of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) using a recursively dynamic global computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, MAGNET. The study considers two policy measures: cuts in bilateral...

Regional integration in Africa is deepening, and the existing regional groupings are making frantic efforts to remove barriers to trade. One way in which trade among countries can be promoted is through the establishment of free trade areas with member-states. However, regulatory quality that...

Purpose - This paper aims to assess the impact of digital financial innovation on financial system development in Common Market for eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). This paper evaluates the dynamic relationship between digital financial innovation measures and financial system development...

In developing economies, stable foreign direct investment inflow is used as a means of realization of private sector growth and sustainable development goals. However, there is variability in inflows to African region in general and its economic bloc groupings in particular overtime across...

Purpose The present study investigates the extent to which technological progress influences trade in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) region over the period 1990-2017. Design/methodology/approach Methodologically, this study uses a rigorous dynamic analysis namely a...

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is a Free Trade Area (FTA) regional trade agreement in Africa. Currently, Ethiopia is negotiating to join COMESA FTA. This study assesses the impact of three regional trade arrangements, COMESA FTA, customs unions, and the European...

This paper examines the factors influencing intra-Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) trade by empirically investigating whether the Free Trade Area (FTA) contributed to trade growth from 1997 to 2015. Gravity models for exports and imports were estimated to identify the...

This study investigates the effect of infrastructure and trade openness on the evolution of manufacturing and services sector output using panel data from 14 selected COMESA member countries over the period 1993-2016. The Pooled Mean Group, Mean Group and Dynamic Fixed Effects were used to...

The COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite FTA, formed in 2011, is supposed to be a milestone towards Africa's continental trade integration. This study analyzes the impact of regional integration among the Tripartite countries on their bilateral imports before that date to evaluate the latest integration...

Tuna is an important marine resource caught in most oceans. Certain tuna species in some of the existing stocks are already overfished, while others are fully exploited. Various mechanisms such as those stemming from the UNCLOS are in place and efforts to streamline management of the tuna...

Many countries, especially developing nations, concentrate on protecting domestic producers by encouraging production of import substitutes and import competing goods. Such a development strategy, coupled with high import duty, target to avoid competition from cheap foreign products and the...

This central premise of this article is that the prevailing political economy has an influence on the content and orientation of the legal, regulatory and institutional framework for the public distribution of securities. Thus, the prevailing political economy determines the in-ward or outward...

This study evaluates the economic impact of the proposed COMESA-SADC-EAC Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) on 26 African countries. It uses the global trade analysis project (GTAP) computable general equilibrium (CGE) model and database to measure the static effects of the establishment of the...

As trade between China and African countries continues to expand, so does the debate as regards the developmental outcomes it is likely to produce. This paper examines the trade relations that have developed between the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and China since 2000....

This paper models the trade creating and trade diverting effects of the COMESA free trade agreement (FTA) and MERCOSUR over time using several theoretically consistent gravity equations. The extensive sector-specific TradeProd panel data set from 1980 to 2006 is employed throughout. From the...

The establishment of a Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) which would combine the members of three existing regional economic communities, i.e. the Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), was...

Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has been promoting reforms to help regional integration for effective transport services. The study indicated the need for better traffic management, in general, and, specifically, to face up to the growing congestion problem in the capital cities....

Freight logistics plays an important role in supporting trade for all nations which directly impact economic growth. Transport routes have now become more congested and limited in some cases, in addition to the rising concern about the role of transport movements in accelerating climate change....

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) launched its free trade area (FTA) on 31 October 2000 and is in the process of forming a custom union. A Common External Tariff (CET) with respect to all goods imported into the member states from third countries shall be established and...

South-South trade agreements are proliferating: Developing countries signed 70 new agreements between 1990 and 2003. Yet the impact of these agreements is largely unknown, as existing North-North and North-South micro-level studies are likely to yield misleading predictions for South-South trade...

The preferential trade agreement of Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) was formed in 1982 with the objective of achieving deeper integration. In 1994 COMESA member states agreed to form a free trade agreement. The free trade agreement came into effect after nine member states...