STUDY REGIONAL INTEGRATION AND POVERTY REDUCTION IN THE HORN OF

The overall implications indeed depend on the increase in the number of poor people on the continent, structure of the economies in terms of informality, labor and the low shares of regional trade in Africa’s total trade. [...] between regional integration and poverty reduction and to examine the impact of the AfCFTA in general and the trade liberalizations in particular on poverty reduction and inclusive growth in the context of the Horn of African countries. [...] and factors of production: increasing the role of trade in economic activity has the obvious effect of increasing The impact on employment: integration affects the share of sectors active in international markets and employment in varied ways depending on the partners perhaps decreasing the relative importance of domestic involved and the type of integration pursued. [...] The link between January 2012, at the 18th African Union Summit of Heads the change in the relative return of land and capital and of State and Government, AU Member States expressed human development is less clear, as it depends on the the desire to see the share of intra-African trade double distribution of land in countries, access of the rural poor within the next ten years (UNDP, 2011). [...] It could speed countries in the region depending up the rural-urban migration and on the structure of these economies, shifting of labor force from the less the composition of the countries’ productive agricultural sector to the trade and labor force.