Performance à l'exportation et commerce Sud-Sud. Une analyse sectorielle appliquée à l'Afrique sub-saharienne

This paper aims at analyzing the sectoral characteristics of South-South trade, looking in particular at the bilateral trade of Sub-Saharan African countries in the period 2000-2009. We first report the decomposition of each country?s export performance, identifying the contribution of foreign market access and internal supply capacity. Then, focusing on the determinants of export performance, we endogenize the development of domestic productive capacities along foreign market access by introducing the presence of demand spillovers. The interaction<np pagenum="II"/> between the two forces at work (demand spillovers versus tensions on the factor markets) are here differentiated by stage of product and by export destination in the South. Classification JEL : F10, O11, O57