An Analysis of Intra-Regional Trade and Economic Integration in Africa: the Case of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) : 아프리카 지역 내 무역 및 경제 통합에 대한 분석: 동남아프리카 공동 시장 사례 연구

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) envisaged its transformation from PTA to a Common Market in 1993 and agreed to become a Monetary Union in 2008 with 36 months of preparation.
The purpose of this research is to understand how integrated COMESA is by looking into the history from PTA to Tripartite FTA, examining trade patterns and analyzing various indicators on the integration degree of member states: revealed comparative advantages (RCA), trade intensity index (ITI), and regional orientation index (ROI).
As analyzing the integration indicators, several problems are discovered such as lack of trade complementarity, heavy reliance on primary commodities, trade diversion, and issues in harmonization of trade policies in COMESA.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• ABSTRACT i
• LIST OF TABLES ii
• LIST OF FIGURES iv
• TABLE OF CONTENTS v
• I. INTRODUCTION 1
• II. LITERATURE REVIEW 4
• 1. Rationale for Regional Economic Integration 4
• 2. Intra-Regional Trade in Africa 6
• III. STUDIES ON AFRICAN ECONOMIC INTEGRATION – THE CASE OF THE COMMON MARKET FOR EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA (COMESA) 8
• 1. History of COMESA: From PTA to COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite FTA 8
• 2. Studies on the COMESA Member States 17
• a. Basic Economic Backgrounds 17
• b. Trade 22
• Trends in COMESA Merchandise Trade to World 22
• Trends in COMESA Service Trade to World 31
• Intra-COMESA Trade 34
• c. FDI 37
• IV. METHODOLOGY AND ANALYSIS 40
• 1. Revealed Comparative Advantage 40
• 2. Trade Intensity Index 43
• 3. Regional Orientation Index 46
• 4. Analysis on problems of COMESA 49
• V. CONCLUSION 57
• REFERENCES 58
• KOREAN ABSTRACT (국문초록) 61