The Enablers of Common Market Implementation

Evidence from the East African Community
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-10784-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 531 g

Reihe: Routledge Research on African Economics

Common market implementation in Africa could potentially alleviate poverty and grow economies. However, despite numerous trading blocs existing in Africa, challenges persist in common market implementation. This book investigates the enablers which could make an important difference, using the East African Community (EAC) as a case study.

Drawing on detailed analysis and extensive original research, this book considers the development of East African regional integration, which aims to foster collective economic advancement via the free movement of goods, people, capital, services, labour, and the rights of residence and establishment. It suggests that there are various enablers to integration which are often underutilised, such as funding models, public participation, regional decision-making models, anticorruption initiatives, common market laws, automated processes, sanction mechanisms, and research and information symmetry. The book argues that correctly harnessing these enablers would have a transformative impact both on the EAC and on other trading blocs in Africa, such as the SADC, ECOWAS, COMESA, and AfCFTA.

This book will be an important read for researchers and practitioners in international trade, regional integration, African development, and economics.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ntara, Caroline

Schutte, Flip

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

List of tables

Acknowledgements

Overview

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The Common Market Protocol

Chapter 3: The Common Market Implementation Framework

Chapter 4: Funding Model

Chapter 5: Public Participation

Chapter 6: The Region’s Decision-Making Model

Chapter 7: Anticorruption

Chapter 8: Research and Information Symmetry

Chapter 9: Common Market Protocol Laws

Chapter 10: Sanction Mechanism

Chapter 11: Automated Processes

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Caroline Ntara is Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Regenesys Business School, South Africa, and a lecturer at KCA University, Kenya.

Flip Schutte is Dean of Research and Head of the Institute for Post-Graduate Studies, STADIO Higher Education, South Africa.