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between sub-Saharan Africa and high-income OECD countries. Combining estimates fromunit value and trade value regressions set … consumers in the form of higher prices-but they also increase trade volume. For agrifood exports from sub-Saharan Africa …
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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 to change relative factor prices in favor of the more...
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This study examines the potential for intra-Africa trade and the prospects of advancing regional economic integration … reveal the existence of significant potential for intra-Africa trade. However, realizing this potential and hence the effort … to advance regional integration through intra-Africa trade is challenged by lack of complementarities of exports and …
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This paper investigates the impact of foreign direct investment on total factor productivity conditional on relative …
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aid-recipient countries in Africa. In the absence of formal evaluation guidelines, most previous studies, using aggregate … have increased both Africa's imports from and exports to OECD countries. This finding also holds the various commodity … to Africa have played little role in Africa's trade with China, with infrastructure and economic size of African …
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contributes to improving social welfare in Africa. To do so, we construct three indices of trade facilitation capturing … efficiency, will likely be associated with improvements of social welfare in Africa. …
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number of businesses within Africa are affected by these barriers. Notwithstanding, there is little empirical knowledge on … how they interact and affect trade flows within Africa. In this paper, we assess the effects of trade facilitation … improves trade performance in Africa; the better the level of trade facilitation, the larger the extent of trade flows. From a …
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data approach to analyze the extent to which Africa and its major regional groupings have been able to generate shared …
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African countries are negotiating the African Continental Free Trade Area with the aim to spearhead global value chain (GVC) trade among African countries as a driver for robust economic growth. This paper evaluates the participation of Sub-Saharan African Regional Economic Communities (RECs) in...
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