Budgets: EAC partners have common goal – more revenue – yet pursue divergent policies

Trucks at a border crossing.

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East African Community partner states seem reluctant to adopt policies meant to raise domestic revenues even as they face pressure to address mounting fiscal obligations.

And experts warn that there is a risk of diluting the market in the EAC as a universal environment conducive for doing business, weakening the real goals of integration.