Trade and Investment in East Africa

Binyam Afewerk Demena (Ph.D.) is a development economist committed to responding to questions arising in today’s global problems. His research, which is largely inspired by the SDGs, lies at the intersection of Development, Environment and Health. He has  made contributions on a broad range of topics of impact evaluation including in the areas of international trade, foreign direct investment, economic sanctions, uptake of solar energy systems, public health, public governance, environmental emissions, information and communications technology for development (ICT4D), rural infrastructure programs, and formalization of informal firms, drawing both on qualitative and quantitative methods in different forms. He has a track record of published research in peer-reviewed scientific journals, among others in Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Environmental and Resource Economics, Labour Economics, Journal of Economic Surveys, AIDS Patient Care and STDs, and Third World Quarterly.He has solid field research experience in low- and middle-income countries. Peter van Bergeijk is a full and tenured professor of International Economics/ Macroeconomics, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Hague, The Netherlands, since 2009. His research interests include world trade, economic sanctions, diplomacy, development, natural and man-made disasters, and trade uncertainty. He is the (co)editor of The Gravity Model in International Trade: Advances and Applications (2010), Research Handbook on Economic Diplomacy (2019), Research Handbook on Economic Sanctions (2021), SDGs and Income Inequality (2017). Recent monographs include Deglobalization 2.0 (2019) and Pandemic Economics (2021).

• Introduction.- Trade potential and bottlenecks in East Africa: a gravity approach.- Trade Complementarities between Europe and Tanzania.- The Effect of the tripartite free trade area on trade flow in Southern and Eastern Africa.- Investment climate and international integration of firms in EAC.- Productivity premia and firm heterogeneity in Eastern Africa.- Learning by exporting: Evidence from EAC Countries.- The effect of FDI and trade openness on the firms export competitiveness and product diversification among EAC.- Competitiveness of East African exports: A constant market share analysis.- The leather value chain: A review of the literature.- Export promotion and farmers’ welfare impact: evidence from common beans(phaseolus vulgaris l) farming in Arusha.- Export Performance of the Horticultural Sub-Sector in Tanzania.- Effectiveness of Zanzibar seaweed cluster initiative enhancing seaweed value chain.- The impact of cross border traders’ cooperatives on the income of small-scale women traders: A case study of trade between Rwanda and Uganda.