Effects of East African Community Regional Trade Agreement on Member's Agricultural Exports

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dc.contributor.authorOuma, Duncan
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-10T13:34:12Z
dc.date.available2015-08-10T13:34:12Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.descriptionA paper presented at the International Conference on Dynamics of Rural Transformation in Emerging Economies 27-28 March, 2014en_US
dc.description.abstractAgricultural activities contribute to about 33% of the East African Comrnunitys Gross Domestic Product (World Bank, 2009), 83% of the populace live in rural areas and 80% of the populace depend on agriculture directly and indirectly for food, employment and income, while about 40 million people in EAC suffer from hunger. Agriculture and agricultural trade is therefore a tool that can be used to transform the rural areas and help reduce poverty levels in the region. EAC member stales has formulated and implemented a number of initiatives to boost intra-regional trade. However. intra-EAC trade remains very low, that is, at 9% of the total regional trad(: (compared to other RTA in Africa and beyond, for instance: EU-66%; East Asia-55%; NAFT A-44%; ASEAN-27% and SADC-13%). Agricultural trade accounts to above 40 per cent of the intra-EAC trade. This study investigated effect of EAC-RT A on the regions agricultural trade by analyzing the degree of trade creation and diversion effects. Augmented gravity models were estimated under Random Effects using the Pseudo Poisson Maximum Likelihood approach. The study used 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. The empirical findings showed Kenya and Tanzania benefited more from the integration in terms of agricultural exports, while Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi had no signifen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/13414
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.titleEffects of East African Community Regional Trade Agreement on Member's Agricultural Exportsen_US
dc.typePresentationen_US
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