Was the collapse of world trade between 1928 and 1937 caused by higher transport costs, increased protectionism or the … equilibrium effects of bilateral distance, international borders, and the payment system on trade. My results suggest that had … average tari and non-tari trade barriers remained at their 1928 level, total international trade would have been 64.6 % higher …

This paper provides an overview of trade reform in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) since 1996 and … a quantitative assessment of potential effects on trade patterns and tariff revenue of the current reform agenda …. Despite evidence of significant trade complementarities within WAEMU, implementation of the union's current trade regime still …

if China's relative presence continues to rise in the regional trade. …

The paper analyses the potential trade impact of the forthcoming East African Community (EAC) customs union. It … examines the trade linkages among the member countries of the EAC and the extent to which the introduction of the EAC common … external tariff will liberalize their trade regimes. To gauge the potential trade impact of the formation of the customs union …

plan to market and, then, in the run-up to and entry into the European Union, they rode a wave of global trade and …

good practice and it is necessary to speed up implementation if revenue, trade facilitation, and trade chain security …

This paper analyzes the impact of political instability in Côte d’Ivoire on WAEMU trade over 1990-2007, applying panel … econometric techniques to a gravity model of trade within WAEMU and between WAEMU and the rest of the world. The paper finds that … intra-regional trade represents a small share of total WAEMU trade and that Côte d’Ivoire accounts for around half of that …