The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), while above all a public health crisis, has presented the African continent with unprecedented economic challenges. In order to contain cross-border transmission of the virus, countries have introduced various restrictions to cross-border and transit freight...

The African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Export Import Bank (Afreximbank) launched a joint one-year pilot project to collect data on informal cross-border trade along the Abidjan– Lagos corridor in the Economic Community...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing crisis have provided an opportunity to learn more about the African pharmaceutical industry. This report is a contribution to greater understanding of the African pharmaceutical industry and the challenges that it faces, most of which are not new but have...

We introduce search unemployment à la Pissarides into Melitz’ (2003) model of trade with heterogeneous firms. We allow wages to be individually or collectively bargained and analytically solve for the equilibrium. We find that the selection effect of trade influences labor market outcomes....