Cross-Border Initiative in Eastern and Southern Africa : Regional Integration by Emergence

Over the past few decades Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries have tried various arrangements to promote economic integration. Most of these arrangements have focused on promoting greater intra-regional trade. Nevertheless, despite some increase in intra-regional trade in some of the groupings (e.g., COMESA, SADC and UEMOA), overall intra-regional trade in SSA is less than 10 percent of the region's total trade. In the past decade, some of the arrangements have also started to focus on promoting greater intra-regional investment flows (e.g., UEMOA, COMESA). The experience to date has brought out two key issues that are likely to shape the debate over the integration approaches in SSA over the next decade. These are: a choice between "integration by design" and "integration by emergence"; and the relative importance given to the promotion of intra-regional trade and investment. This article presents a synthesis of the issues as well as the experience in dealing with these issues under the Cross Border Initiative (CBI) in Eastern and Southern Africa and Indian Ocean countries.

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Main Author: Gorjestani, Nicolas
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2000-09
Subjects:CAPITAL GOODS, CAPITAL MARKET, CAPITAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT, CROSS-BORDER FLOWS, CUSTOMS, DEREGULATION, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, ECONOMIC INTEGRATION, ECONOMIC REFORM, EXCHANGE SYSTEM, EXPORT BIAS, FLOW OF INVESTMENT, FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT, FOREIGN INVESTMENT, FREE TRADE, FREER TRADE, GLOBAL MARKETS, GOOD GOVERNANCE, HARMONIZATION, HUMAN CAPITAL, HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT, INTERMEDIATE GOODS, INTRA-REGIONAL TRADE, INTRAREGIONAL TRADE, INVESTMENT FLOWS, JUDICIAL REFORMS, LIBERALIZATION, LOWERING TRADE, MARKET INTEGRATION, NON-TARIFF BARRIERS, PEER PRESSURE, POLITICAL STABILITY, POTENTIAL BENEFITS, PRIVATIZATION, REGIONAL INTEGRATION, REGIONAL LEVEL, REGIONAL MARKET, REGIONAL TRADE, REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT, REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS, RULES OF ORIGIN, SMALL ECONOMIES, TARIFF BARRIERS, TARIFF REFORM, TARIFF REGIMES, TARIFF STRUCTURE, TAX, TAX REFORM, TRADE LIBERALIZATION, TRADE OPENNESS, TRADE REFORM, TRADE REGIMES, TREATY, TREATY OBLIGATIONS, WELFARE GAINS,
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/09/12356864/cross-border-initiative-eastern-southern-africa-regional-integration-emergence
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spelling dig-okr-1098698342024-08-08T16:06:11Z Cross-Border Initiative in Eastern and Southern Africa : Regional Integration by Emergence Gorjestani, Nicolas CAPITAL GOODS CAPITAL MARKET CAPITAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT CROSS-BORDER FLOWS CUSTOMS DEREGULATION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ECONOMIC INTEGRATION ECONOMIC REFORM EXCHANGE SYSTEM EXPORT BIAS FLOW OF INVESTMENT FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FOREIGN INVESTMENT FREE TRADE FREER TRADE GLOBAL MARKETS GOOD GOVERNANCE HARMONIZATION HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT INTERMEDIATE GOODS INTRA-REGIONAL TRADE INTRAREGIONAL TRADE INVESTMENT FLOWS JUDICIAL REFORMS LIBERALIZATION LOWERING TRADE MARKET INTEGRATION NON-TARIFF BARRIERS PEER PRESSURE POLITICAL STABILITY POTENTIAL BENEFITS PRIVATIZATION REGIONAL INTEGRATION REGIONAL LEVEL REGIONAL MARKET REGIONAL TRADE REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS RULES OF ORIGIN SMALL ECONOMIES TARIFF BARRIERS TARIFF REFORM TARIFF REGIMES TARIFF STRUCTURE TAX TAX REFORM TRADE LIBERALIZATION TRADE OPENNESS TRADE REFORM TRADE REGIMES TREATY TREATY OBLIGATIONS WELFARE GAINS Over the past few decades Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries have tried various arrangements to promote economic integration. Most of these arrangements have focused on promoting greater intra-regional trade. Nevertheless, despite some increase in intra-regional trade in some of the groupings (e.g., COMESA, SADC and UEMOA), overall intra-regional trade in SSA is less than 10 percent of the region's total trade. In the past decade, some of the arrangements have also started to focus on promoting greater intra-regional investment flows (e.g., UEMOA, COMESA). The experience to date has brought out two key issues that are likely to shape the debate over the integration approaches in SSA over the next decade. These are: a choice between "integration by design" and "integration by emergence"; and the relative importance given to the promotion of intra-regional trade and investment. This article presents a synthesis of the issues as well as the experience in dealing with these issues under the Cross Border Initiative (CBI) in Eastern and Southern Africa and Indian Ocean countries. 2012-08-13T09:39:28Z 2012-08-13T09:39:28Z 2000-09 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/09/12356864/cross-border-initiative-eastern-southern-africa-regional-integration-emergence https://hdl.handle.net/10986/9834 English Africa Region Findings & Good Practice Infobriefs; No. 166 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank application/pdf text/plain World Bank, Washington, DC
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topic CAPITAL GOODS
CAPITAL MARKET
CAPITAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT
CROSS-BORDER FLOWS
CUSTOMS
DEREGULATION
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
ECONOMIC INTEGRATION
ECONOMIC REFORM
EXCHANGE SYSTEM
EXPORT BIAS
FLOW OF INVESTMENT
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
FOREIGN INVESTMENT
FREE TRADE
FREER TRADE
GLOBAL MARKETS
GOOD GOVERNANCE
HARMONIZATION
HUMAN CAPITAL
HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT
INTERMEDIATE GOODS
INTRA-REGIONAL TRADE
INTRAREGIONAL TRADE
INVESTMENT FLOWS
JUDICIAL REFORMS
LIBERALIZATION
LOWERING TRADE
MARKET INTEGRATION
NON-TARIFF BARRIERS
PEER PRESSURE
POLITICAL STABILITY
POTENTIAL BENEFITS
PRIVATIZATION
REGIONAL INTEGRATION
REGIONAL LEVEL
REGIONAL MARKET
REGIONAL TRADE
REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT
REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS
RULES OF ORIGIN
SMALL ECONOMIES
TARIFF BARRIERS
TARIFF REFORM
TARIFF REGIMES
TARIFF STRUCTURE
TAX
TAX REFORM
TRADE LIBERALIZATION
TRADE OPENNESS
TRADE REFORM
TRADE REGIMES
TREATY
TREATY OBLIGATIONS
WELFARE GAINS
CAPITAL GOODS
CAPITAL MARKET
CAPITAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT
CROSS-BORDER FLOWS
CUSTOMS
DEREGULATION
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
ECONOMIC INTEGRATION
ECONOMIC REFORM
EXCHANGE SYSTEM
EXPORT BIAS
FLOW OF INVESTMENT
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
FOREIGN INVESTMENT
FREE TRADE
FREER TRADE
GLOBAL MARKETS
GOOD GOVERNANCE
HARMONIZATION
HUMAN CAPITAL
HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT
INTERMEDIATE GOODS
INTRA-REGIONAL TRADE
INTRAREGIONAL TRADE
INVESTMENT FLOWS
JUDICIAL REFORMS
LIBERALIZATION
LOWERING TRADE
MARKET INTEGRATION
NON-TARIFF BARRIERS
PEER PRESSURE
POLITICAL STABILITY
POTENTIAL BENEFITS
PRIVATIZATION
REGIONAL INTEGRATION
REGIONAL LEVEL
REGIONAL MARKET
REGIONAL TRADE
REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT
REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS
RULES OF ORIGIN
SMALL ECONOMIES
TARIFF BARRIERS
TARIFF REFORM
TARIFF REGIMES
TARIFF STRUCTURE
TAX
TAX REFORM
TRADE LIBERALIZATION
TRADE OPENNESS
TRADE REFORM
TRADE REGIMES
TREATY
TREATY OBLIGATIONS
WELFARE GAINS
spellingShingle CAPITAL GOODS
CAPITAL MARKET
CAPITAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT
CROSS-BORDER FLOWS
CUSTOMS
DEREGULATION
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
ECONOMIC INTEGRATION
ECONOMIC REFORM
EXCHANGE SYSTEM
EXPORT BIAS
FLOW OF INVESTMENT
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
FOREIGN INVESTMENT
FREE TRADE
FREER TRADE
GLOBAL MARKETS
GOOD GOVERNANCE
HARMONIZATION
HUMAN CAPITAL
HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT
INTERMEDIATE GOODS
INTRA-REGIONAL TRADE
INTRAREGIONAL TRADE
INVESTMENT FLOWS
JUDICIAL REFORMS
LIBERALIZATION
LOWERING TRADE
MARKET INTEGRATION
NON-TARIFF BARRIERS
PEER PRESSURE
POLITICAL STABILITY
POTENTIAL BENEFITS
PRIVATIZATION
REGIONAL INTEGRATION
REGIONAL LEVEL
REGIONAL MARKET
REGIONAL TRADE
REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT
REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS
RULES OF ORIGIN
SMALL ECONOMIES
TARIFF BARRIERS
TARIFF REFORM
TARIFF REGIMES
TARIFF STRUCTURE
TAX
TAX REFORM
TRADE LIBERALIZATION
TRADE OPENNESS
TRADE REFORM
TRADE REGIMES
TREATY
TREATY OBLIGATIONS
WELFARE GAINS
CAPITAL GOODS
CAPITAL MARKET
CAPITAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT
CROSS-BORDER FLOWS
CUSTOMS
DEREGULATION
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
ECONOMIC INTEGRATION
ECONOMIC REFORM
EXCHANGE SYSTEM
EXPORT BIAS
FLOW OF INVESTMENT
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
FOREIGN INVESTMENT
FREE TRADE
FREER TRADE
GLOBAL MARKETS
GOOD GOVERNANCE
HARMONIZATION
HUMAN CAPITAL
HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT
INTERMEDIATE GOODS
INTRA-REGIONAL TRADE
INTRAREGIONAL TRADE
INVESTMENT FLOWS
JUDICIAL REFORMS
LIBERALIZATION
LOWERING TRADE
MARKET INTEGRATION
NON-TARIFF BARRIERS
PEER PRESSURE
POLITICAL STABILITY
POTENTIAL BENEFITS
PRIVATIZATION
REGIONAL INTEGRATION
REGIONAL LEVEL
REGIONAL MARKET
REGIONAL TRADE
REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT
REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS
RULES OF ORIGIN
SMALL ECONOMIES
TARIFF BARRIERS
TARIFF REFORM
TARIFF REGIMES
TARIFF STRUCTURE
TAX
TAX REFORM
TRADE LIBERALIZATION
TRADE OPENNESS
TRADE REFORM
TRADE REGIMES
TREATY
TREATY OBLIGATIONS
WELFARE GAINS
Gorjestani, Nicolas
Cross-Border Initiative in Eastern and Southern Africa : Regional Integration by Emergence
description Over the past few decades Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries have tried various arrangements to promote economic integration. Most of these arrangements have focused on promoting greater intra-regional trade. Nevertheless, despite some increase in intra-regional trade in some of the groupings (e.g., COMESA, SADC and UEMOA), overall intra-regional trade in SSA is less than 10 percent of the region's total trade. In the past decade, some of the arrangements have also started to focus on promoting greater intra-regional investment flows (e.g., UEMOA, COMESA). The experience to date has brought out two key issues that are likely to shape the debate over the integration approaches in SSA over the next decade. These are: a choice between "integration by design" and "integration by emergence"; and the relative importance given to the promotion of intra-regional trade and investment. This article presents a synthesis of the issues as well as the experience in dealing with these issues under the Cross Border Initiative (CBI) in Eastern and Southern Africa and Indian Ocean countries.
topic_facet CAPITAL GOODS
CAPITAL MARKET
CAPITAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT
CROSS-BORDER FLOWS
CUSTOMS
DEREGULATION
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
ECONOMIC INTEGRATION
ECONOMIC REFORM
EXCHANGE SYSTEM
EXPORT BIAS
FLOW OF INVESTMENT
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
FOREIGN INVESTMENT
FREE TRADE
FREER TRADE
GLOBAL MARKETS
GOOD GOVERNANCE
HARMONIZATION
HUMAN CAPITAL
HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT
INTERMEDIATE GOODS
INTRA-REGIONAL TRADE
INTRAREGIONAL TRADE
INVESTMENT FLOWS
JUDICIAL REFORMS
LIBERALIZATION
LOWERING TRADE
MARKET INTEGRATION
NON-TARIFF BARRIERS
PEER PRESSURE
POLITICAL STABILITY
POTENTIAL BENEFITS
PRIVATIZATION
REGIONAL INTEGRATION
REGIONAL LEVEL
REGIONAL MARKET
REGIONAL TRADE
REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT
REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS
RULES OF ORIGIN
SMALL ECONOMIES
TARIFF BARRIERS
TARIFF REFORM
TARIFF REGIMES
TARIFF STRUCTURE
TAX
TAX REFORM
TRADE LIBERALIZATION
TRADE OPENNESS
TRADE REFORM
TRADE REGIMES
TREATY
TREATY OBLIGATIONS
WELFARE GAINS
author Gorjestani, Nicolas
author_facet Gorjestani, Nicolas
author_sort Gorjestani, Nicolas
title Cross-Border Initiative in Eastern and Southern Africa : Regional Integration by Emergence
title_short Cross-Border Initiative in Eastern and Southern Africa : Regional Integration by Emergence
title_full Cross-Border Initiative in Eastern and Southern Africa : Regional Integration by Emergence
title_fullStr Cross-Border Initiative in Eastern and Southern Africa : Regional Integration by Emergence
title_full_unstemmed Cross-Border Initiative in Eastern and Southern Africa : Regional Integration by Emergence
title_sort cross-border initiative in eastern and southern africa : regional integration by emergence
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2000-09
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/09/12356864/cross-border-initiative-eastern-southern-africa-regional-integration-emergence
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