Departmental Papers

A Work in Progress: Integrating Markets for Goods, Labor, and Capital in the East African Community

ByEmre Alper, Wenjie Chen, Jemma Dridi, Herve Joly, Fan Yang

January 13, 2017

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Emre Alper, Wenjie Chen, Jemma Dridi, Herve Joly, and Fan Yang. "A Work in Progress: Integrating Markets for Goods, Labor, and Capital in the East African Community", Departmental Papers 2017, 001 (2017), accessed 12/5/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475560350.087

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Summary

This paper assesses the extent of economic and financial integration among the East African Community (EAC) along a number of dimensions and, where possible, whether integration has increased in the wake of the major regional integration policy milestones.

Subject: Balance of payments, Capital controls, Direction of trade, Imports, International trade, Migration, Population and demographics, Tariffs, Taxes

Keywords: Africa, Capital controls, country, Direction of trade, DP, DPPP, EAC citizen, EAC Cm scorecard, EAC country, EAC member states, EAC secretariat, excl. EAC, Imports, Kenya, Migration, North America, partner state, Rwanda, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tariffs, Uganda