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Overlapping Memberships and Its Impact on Regional Trade

Fanta, Hawaz Tewabe LU (2021) EKHS21 20211
Department of Economic History
Abstract
Regionalism in Africa has surged since post-colonial times in a shared aim to consolidate resources and integrate national markets into a common entity. However, intra-regional in Africa has stagnated for decades owing to various structural and procedural roadblocks. Literature discusses that multiple memberships that member states obtain from different regional trade blocs complicate the trading atmosphere and create more delay in the implementation of integration efforts. Accordingly, this paper primarily examines and tests the effect of overlapping memberships on intra-regional trade in four regional trading blocs that are operational in East and Southern Africa: namely, Intergovernmental Authority for Development, the Common Market for... (More)
Regionalism in Africa has surged since post-colonial times in a shared aim to consolidate resources and integrate national markets into a common entity. However, intra-regional in Africa has stagnated for decades owing to various structural and procedural roadblocks. Literature discusses that multiple memberships that member states obtain from different regional trade blocs complicate the trading atmosphere and create more delay in the implementation of integration efforts. Accordingly, this paper primarily examines and tests the effect of overlapping memberships on intra-regional trade in four regional trading blocs that are operational in East and Southern Africa: namely, Intergovernmental Authority for Development, the Common Market for East and Southern Africa, Southern African Development Community and East African Community. The study employs an empirical study by constructing a cross-sectional time series data that spans over a time period of 21 years between 1992 and 2012. This study takes up recent studies and uses regional trade agreements as a unit of analysis which concomitantly allowed the inclusion of other important factors such as political integration and size of regional trade agreements that can possibly affect intra-regional trade. Method of fixed effects is used and the empirical results indicate that overlapping memberships in East and Southern Africa significantly and negatively affect intra-regional trade share. (Less)
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author
Fanta, Hawaz Tewabe LU
supervisor
organization
course
EKHS21 20211
year
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
Regional Integration, Overlapping Memberships, African Regional Trade Agreements, Spaghetti Bowl Phenomenon, Fixed Effects
language
English
id
9057159
date added to LUP
2021-06-24 13:14:17
date last changed
2021-06-24 13:14:17
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  abstract     = {{Regionalism in Africa has surged since post-colonial times in a shared aim to consolidate resources and integrate national markets into a common entity. However, intra-regional in Africa has stagnated for decades owing to various structural and procedural roadblocks. Literature discusses that multiple memberships that member states obtain from different regional trade blocs complicate the trading atmosphere and create more delay in the implementation of integration efforts. Accordingly, this paper primarily examines and tests the effect of overlapping memberships on intra-regional trade in four regional trading blocs that are operational in East and Southern Africa: namely, Intergovernmental Authority for Development, the Common Market for East and Southern Africa, Southern African Development Community and East African Community. The study employs an empirical study by constructing a cross-sectional time series data that spans over a time period of 21 years between 1992 and 2012. This study takes up recent studies and uses regional trade agreements as a unit of analysis which concomitantly allowed the inclusion of other important factors such as political integration and size of regional trade agreements that can possibly affect intra-regional trade. Method of fixed effects is used and the empirical results indicate that overlapping memberships in East and Southern Africa significantly and negatively affect intra-regional trade share.}},
  author       = {{Fanta, Hawaz Tewabe}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Overlapping Memberships and Its Impact on Regional Trade}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}