Agricultural Trade and Economic Growth in East African Community

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dc.contributor.authorOuma, D.
dc.contributor.authorKimani, T.
dc.contributor.authorManyasa, E.
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-08T14:33:11Z
dc.date.available2016-08-08T14:33:11Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionResearch Articleen_US
dc.description.abstractEast African Community states, as many other states in the region, depend largely on agricultural activities to boost their economic growth and create employment. Up to 80 per cent of the populace depends on agriculture directly and indirectly for food, employment and income, while about 40 million people in EAC suffer from hunger. The role of trade in economic growth and vice versa cannot be over emphasized. However, whether there is any link between EAC’s regional trade and the region’s economic growth remain unknown. This study therefore investigated the relationship of the agricultural trade with economic growth in East African Community. Several bi-variate Vector Auto-Regressive (VAR) and Vector Error Correction Models (VECM) were also estimated. Granger causality test and Impulse response analysis on trade and economic growth were performed using panel data from UNCOMTRADE, International Financial Statistics and World Development Indicators for the period 2000 – 2012 on the five EAC members and other 77 trade partners. Empirical findings showed mixed results for the different EAC member states. There existed bi-directional relationship between agricultural exports and economic growth in Kenya, uni-directional relationship in Rwanda, and no relationship at all in Burundi, Tanzania and Uganda.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAfrican Journal of Economic Review, Volume IV, Issue 2, July 2016en_US
dc.identifier.issn1821-8148
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/14870
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAJERen_US
dc.subjectAgricultural Tradeen_US
dc.subjectEconomic Growthen_US
dc.subjectEast African Communityen_US
dc.subjectRegional Integrationen_US
dc.titleAgricultural Trade and Economic Growth in East African Communityen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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