The livestock sector in Mali accounts for 43 percent of cattle exports in the Sahel sub-region. However, while the sub-sector accounted for 28.6 percent of agriculture's contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP), investment in it amounted to only 10.7 percent of the total budget allocation to...

The record of trade policy reform in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) masks substantial variation among countries and a tendency in the region for crucial trade reforms to be stalled or reversed subsequent to implementation. Despite a decade of intensive reform efforts, the trade environment in Africa...