A Work in Progress: Integrating Markets for Goods, Labor, and Capital in the East African Community

By Emre Alper, Wenjie Chen, Jemma Dridi, Herve Joly, Fan Yang

January 13, 2017

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Emre Alper, Wenjie Chen, Jemma Dridi, Herve Joly, and Fan Yang. A Work in Progress: Integrating Markets for Goods, Labor, and Capital in the East African Community, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2017) accessed December 3, 2024

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Summary

This paper assesses the extent of economic and financial integration among the East African Community (EAC) along a number of dimensions and, where possible, whether integration has increased in the wake of the major regional integration policy milestones.

Subject: Balance of payments, Capital controls, Direction of trade, Imports, International trade, Migration, Population and demographics, Tariffs, Taxes

Keywords: Africa, Capital controls, Country, Direction of trade, DP, DPPP, EAC citizen, EAC Cm scorecard, EAC country, EAC member states, EAC secretariat, Excl. EAC, Imports, Kenya, Migration, North America, Partner state, Rwanda, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tariffs, Uganda

Publication Details

Pages:

76
Volume:

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Series:

Departmental Paper No. 2017/001
Stock No:

RIEACEA
ISBN:

9781475560350
ISSN:

2616-5333

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