Although trade liberalization is being actively promoted as a key component in development strategies, theoretically …, the impact of trade openness on poverty reduction is ambiguous. On the one hand, a more liberalized trade regime is argued … abundance of labor, greater trade openness should lead to higher labor prices and a decrease in poverty. However, should the re …

African trade statistics suffer from errors of commission and omission. A quarter-century ago, Alexander Yeats (1990 …, direction, or composition of trade. The only fact to be safely deduced from the evidence was that the statistics were plagued by …, trade statistics continue to be lacking in quality. …

The paper empirically examines the differential effects of trade on economic growth and investment based on cross …-country data. In general, the results are largely consistent with the positive impact of trade on economic growth as found in the … literature. However, the empirical results based on different categories of countries show that whereas trade has positively …

examine the linkages between trade facilitation and infrastructure on the one hand, and value chain participation on the other … infrastructure development and trade facilitation performance. Moreover, it is not only a country's own performance that matters, but … also that of its neighbors. The regional dimension of infrastructure and trade facilitation policies is an important …

SSA countries. This latter finding clearly poses a challenge to efforts to increase intra-Africa trade. These findings … and diversification of trade partners. …

The optimism surrounding aid for trade (AfT) led scholars and practitioners to probe its link with trade performance of … group. The results for the components of AfT from OECD countries are mixed, with AfT for "trade education and training" the … to Africa have played little role in Africa's trade with China, with infrastructure and economic size of African …

three main points. First, while the direct impacts through investment, trade and remittances are likely to be relatively … towards regional integration through the implementation of the recently-signed African Continental Free Trade Area, while …

exports, imports, and growth performance in Kenya using time series data. Despite trade liberalization and export promotion …

Growth and development in middle- and low-income countries often come at an environmental cost, but is that trade … impact of the world's most significant plurilateral trade agreement, the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA …). We build a novel dataset using the Global Trade Analysis Project data, which allows us to estimate the effect on …