Nick Charalambides

• D.Phil Econ, Oxford University
• Imani Development

So much of the regional integration agenda remains "on paper only" and therefore has little impact. This report examines a range of compliance mechanisms and tools to help ensure that trade agreements are actually implemented and operationalised. Drawing on experience in Africa and internationally, recommendations are made as to what steps SADC c...

The Continental Free Trade Area aims to liberalise trade in goods across the continent.This has the potential to significantly boost growth. But there are concerns about how tariff liberalisation will impact on the already fragile fiscal position of several countries. This paper examines the potential fiscal loss from the CFTA and the potential c...

This study provides an assessment of the regulatory and economic aspects of South Sudan joining the EAC, focusing on the economic acquis communautaire. South Sudan applied to join the East African Community (EAC) in 2011, when H.E. General Salva Kiir Mayardit, the President of the Republic of South Sudan signed a note verbale. In August 2013, the E...

This study assesses the impact of the informal cross border trade in Rwanda on neighbouring countries, in particular the DRC. It uses a Sustainable Livelihoods Approach to gain insights into the long term impact of ICBT on traders and those actors along the value chain. It provides a quantitative assessment of whether ICBT is driven by arbitrage or...

The report looks at the legal, technical and political challenges of implementing commitments to regional integration in the EAC, ECOWAS and COMESA.

The signing of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union (EU) and the African Caribbean Pacific (ACP) nations dominated the multilateral trade agenda in late 2007 and early 2008. While the Caribbean nations signed the full EPAs, some of the African countries only singed interim agreements with the EU and a number of West...