Regional Integration in Eastern and Southern Africa: The Cross-Border Initiative and its Fiscal Implications

ByAbdelrahmi Bessaha, Ferdinand Bakoup, Luca Errico

February 1, 1995

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The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and national and international economic developments.

Subject: Consumption taxes, Duties, Economic integration, Imports, International trade, Regional integration, Tariffs, Taxes

Keywords: Africa, CBI tariff liberalization measure, Consumption taxes, Duties, East Africa, fiscal policy, import ban, import-substitution strategy, Imports, participating country, Regional integration, revenue impact, revenue loss, sales tax, Southern Africa, tariff reform, tariff schedule, tariff structure, Tariffs, trade creation, trade diversion, trade-weighted average tariff, WP

Pages:
38
Volume:
1995
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451921106.001
Issue:
023
Series:
Working Paper No. 1995/023
Stock No:
WPIEA0231995
ISBN:
9781451921106
ISSN:
1018-5941

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