Comesa and Sadc : Prospects and Challenges for Regional Trade Integration /

Regional integration has been seen in Africa as a means of encouraging trade and securing economies of scale. This paper examines in detail the prospects and challenges for trade expansion in the two most prominent arrangements in eastern and southern Africa: the Common Market for Eastern and Southe...

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1. autor: Khandelwal, Padamja
Format: Czasopismo
Język:English
Wydane: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2004.
Seria:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2004/227
Dostęp online:Full text available on IMF
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