 Integration Potential of African Regional Economic CommunitiesMPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany Abstract: The paper presents a theoretical framework for the assessment of the progress and success po-tential of regional integration agreements among developing countries taking into account their spe-cific features such as stage of economic development, size of the economy, openness to the global economy, trade regimes and the patterns in their international trade. It then applies this framework to the regional economic communities in Africa that are regarded as building blocks of the African economic community – the Community of Sahel-Saharan States, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the East African Community, the Economic Community of Central African States, the Economic Community of Western African States, the Intergovernmental Authority for Development and the South African Development Community. For each community the paper out-lines the main conclusions on the deepness and potential of the integration processes using the developed theoretical framework. Keywords: Economic integration; Regional integration agreements; African economy; Regional economic communities (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pra:mprapa:113699 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany Ludwigstraße 33, D-80539 Munich, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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