Maurer School of Law: Indiana University Digital Repository @ Maurer Law Articles by Maurer Faculty Faculty Scholarship 1969 Economic Integration in East Africa: Distribution of Gains Robert L. Birmingham Indiana University School of Law Follow this and additional works at: https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/facpub Part of the African Studies Commons, Growth and Development Commons, and the Law and Economics Commons Recommended Citation Birmingham, Robert L., "Economic Integration in East Africa: Distribution of Gains" (1969). Articles by Maurer Faculty. 1701. https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/facpub/1701 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at Digital Repository @ Maurer Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Articles by Maurer Faculty by an authorized administrator of Digital Repository @ Maurer Law. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Economic Integration in East Africa: Distribution of Gains ROBERT L. BIRMINGHAM* I. THE NEED FOR CONTROLS A. BENEFITS OF UNIFICATION Although both integration proposals and attempts to implement them have been frequent throughout the last decade, there are few if any successfully functioning economic unions among developing states.' The manifest disparity between effort and consequence does not appear to be adequately explained by disillusionment on the part *Assistant Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law. A.B., Pitts- burgh, 1960, LL.B., 1963, Ph.D., 1967; LL.M., Harvard, 1965. Professors Det- lev F. Vagts of the Harvard Law School and Marina von Neumann Whitman of the University of Pittsburgh have been of great help to me in the prepara- tion of this paper.