Reform and Regional Integration of Professional Services in East Africa : Time for Action

Policy makers across East Africa realize that weak professional services are impeding growth in their countries. Recent studies have revealed a strong relationship between African firms' access to services and their productivity. The East Afri...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Other Poverty Study
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank 2012
Subjects:	ACCESS TO INFORMATION ACCOUNTABILITY ACCOUNTING ADVERTISEMENTS AUDITORS BANKS BASIC SERVICES BUSINESS MODELS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES BUSINESS SERVICES COLLABORATION CONFIDENCE CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS CONTRACTORS CORPORATE GOVERNANCE DATA COLLECTION DISCRETION E-COMMERCE ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC SECTORS ECONOMIES OF SCALE ENGINEERING SERVICES ENGINEERS ETHICS EXTERNALITIES FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FINANCIAL REPORTING FINANCIAL REPORTING STANDARDS HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS INSURANCE INVESTIGATION JUSTICE LAWS LAWYERS LEGAL FRAMEWORK LIABILITY LICENSES LICENSING LOCAL KNOWLEDGE MONOPOLIES MULTINATIONAL MULTINATIONALS NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES NETWORKS OUTSOURCING POLITICAL POWER POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES PREFERENTIAL PRIVATE SECTOR PROGRAMS PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC PUBLIC GOODS PUBLIC PROCUREMENT PUBLIC SECTOR PUBLISHING PURCHASING POWER REGULATORY AGENCIES REGULATORY REFORM REGULATORY REGIMES REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS REMEDY SCIENCE EDUCATION SCIENTISTS TAX TAXATION TECHNICIANS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER TELECOMMUNICATIONS TRAINING COURSES TRAINING PROGRAMS UNDERDEVELOPMENT
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spelling	okr-10986-29572021-04-23T14:02:05Z Reform and Regional Integration of Professional Services in East Africa : Time for Action World Bank ACCESS TO INFORMATION ACCOUNTABILITY ACCOUNTING ADVERTISEMENTS AUDITORS BANKS BASIC SERVICES BUSINESS MODELS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES BUSINESS SERVICES COLLABORATION CONFIDENCE CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS CONTRACTORS CORPORATE GOVERNANCE DATA COLLECTION DISCRETION E-COMMERCE ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC SECTORS ECONOMIES OF SCALE ENGINEERING SERVICES ENGINEERS ETHICS EXTERNALITIES FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FINANCIAL REPORTING FINANCIAL REPORTING STANDARDS HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS INSURANCE INVESTIGATION JUSTICE LAWS LAWYERS LEGAL FRAMEWORK LIABILITY LICENSES LICENSING LOCAL KNOWLEDGE MONOPOLIES MULTINATIONAL MULTINATIONALS NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES NETWORKS OUTSOURCING POLITICAL POWER POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES PREFERENTIAL PRIVATE SECTOR PROGRAMS PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC PUBLIC GOODS PUBLIC PROCUREMENT PUBLIC SECTOR PUBLISHING PURCHASING POWER REGULATORY AGENCIES REGULATORY REFORM REGULATORY REGIMES REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS REMEDY SCIENCE EDUCATION SCIENTISTS TAX TAXATION TECHNICIANS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER TELECOMMUNICATIONS TRAINING COURSES TRAINING PROGRAMS UNDERDEVELOPMENT Policy makers across East Africa realize that weak professional services are impeding growth in their countries. Recent studies have revealed a strong relationship between African firms' access to services and their productivity. The East African governments have now committed themselves to reforming their professional services along with other backbone services like telecommunications, banking and transport. This will include creating a more integrated regional market, and, to initiate this push, in 2009 the five East African heads of state - Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda, adopted the common market protocol to begin the integration process in professional and other services. The East African governments have asked the World Bank for assistance in fixing the large gaps in information on policies and market conditions in professional services, especially accounting, engineering, and legal services. This report is a first step towards that aim. It will serve as a background document for meetings and workshops at the country and regional level, where regulators, professional associations, business representatives, negotiators and other stakeholders will confirm and deepen the information, then plan concrete steps for reform and regional integration. 2012-03-19T10:25:41Z 2012-03-19T10:25:41Z 2010-10-01 http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000333037_20101212235509 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/2957 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank Economic & Sector Work :: Other Poverty Study Africa East Africa
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topic	ACCESS TO INFORMATION ACCOUNTABILITY ACCOUNTING ADVERTISEMENTS AUDITORS BANKS BASIC SERVICES BUSINESS MODELS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES BUSINESS SERVICES COLLABORATION CONFIDENCE CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS CONTRACTORS CORPORATE GOVERNANCE DATA COLLECTION DISCRETION E-COMMERCE ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC SECTORS ECONOMIES OF SCALE ENGINEERING SERVICES ENGINEERS ETHICS EXTERNALITIES FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FINANCIAL REPORTING FINANCIAL REPORTING STANDARDS HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS INSURANCE INVESTIGATION JUSTICE LAWS LAWYERS LEGAL FRAMEWORK LIABILITY LICENSES LICENSING LOCAL KNOWLEDGE MONOPOLIES MULTINATIONAL MULTINATIONALS NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES NETWORKS OUTSOURCING POLITICAL POWER POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES PREFERENTIAL PRIVATE SECTOR PROGRAMS PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC PUBLIC GOODS PUBLIC PROCUREMENT PUBLIC SECTOR PUBLISHING PURCHASING POWER REGULATORY AGENCIES REGULATORY REFORM REGULATORY REGIMES REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS REMEDY SCIENCE EDUCATION SCIENTISTS TAX TAXATION TECHNICIANS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER TELECOMMUNICATIONS TRAINING COURSES TRAINING PROGRAMS UNDERDEVELOPMENT
spellingShingle	ACCESS TO INFORMATION ACCOUNTABILITY ACCOUNTING ADVERTISEMENTS AUDITORS BANKS BASIC SERVICES BUSINESS MODELS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES BUSINESS SERVICES COLLABORATION CONFIDENCE CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS CONTRACTORS CORPORATE GOVERNANCE DATA COLLECTION DISCRETION E-COMMERCE ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC SECTORS ECONOMIES OF SCALE ENGINEERING SERVICES ENGINEERS ETHICS EXTERNALITIES FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FINANCIAL REPORTING FINANCIAL REPORTING STANDARDS HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS INSURANCE INVESTIGATION JUSTICE LAWS LAWYERS LEGAL FRAMEWORK LIABILITY LICENSES LICENSING LOCAL KNOWLEDGE MONOPOLIES MULTINATIONAL MULTINATIONALS NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES NETWORKS OUTSOURCING POLITICAL POWER POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES PREFERENTIAL PRIVATE SECTOR PROGRAMS PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC PUBLIC GOODS PUBLIC PROCUREMENT PUBLIC SECTOR PUBLISHING PURCHASING POWER REGULATORY AGENCIES REGULATORY REFORM REGULATORY REGIMES REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS REMEDY SCIENCE EDUCATION SCIENTISTS TAX TAXATION TECHNICIANS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER TELECOMMUNICATIONS TRAINING COURSES TRAINING PROGRAMS UNDERDEVELOPMENT World Bank Reform and Regional Integration of Professional Services in East Africa : Time for Action
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description	Policy makers across East Africa realize that weak professional services are impeding growth in their countries. Recent studies have revealed a strong relationship between African firms' access to services and their productivity. The East African governments have now committed themselves to reforming their professional services along with other backbone services like telecommunications, banking and transport. This will include creating a more integrated regional market, and, to initiate this push, in 2009 the five East African heads of state - Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda, adopted the common market protocol to begin the integration process in professional and other services. The East African governments have asked the World Bank for assistance in fixing the large gaps in information on policies and market conditions in professional services, especially accounting, engineering, and legal services. This report is a first step towards that aim. It will serve as a background document for meetings and workshops at the country and regional level, where regulators, professional associations, business representatives, negotiators and other stakeholders will confirm and deepen the information, then plan concrete steps for reform and regional integration.
format	Economic & Sector Work :: Other Poverty Study
author	World Bank
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title	Reform and Regional Integration of Professional Services in East Africa : Time for Action
title_short	Reform and Regional Integration of Professional Services in East Africa : Time for Action
title_full	Reform and Regional Integration of Professional Services in East Africa : Time for Action
title_fullStr	Reform and Regional Integration of Professional Services in East Africa : Time for Action
title_full_unstemmed	Reform and Regional Integration of Professional Services in East Africa : Time for Action
title_sort	reform and regional integration of professional services in east africa : time for action
publisher	World Bank
publishDate	2012
url	http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000333037_20101212235509 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/2957
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Reform and Regional Integration of Professional Services in East Africa : Time for Action

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