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Regional integration and growth spillovers: Is Africa an economic space?

Seck, Abdoulaye; Fall, Founty Alassane; Aidara, Khadidiatou - In: Journal of African Trade 7 (2020) 1/2, pp. 37-44

data approach to analyze the extent to which Africa and its major regional groupings have been able to generate shared …

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Agricultural imports, agriculture productivity and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa

Mwangi, Esther N.; Chen, Fuzhong; Njoroge, Daniel M. - In: Journal of African Trade 7 (2020) 1/2, pp. 15-28

This study investigates the causal links among agricultural imports, agriculture productivity, and economic growth in … bidirectional causality between agricultural imports and agriculture productivity in the full sample, and in middle- and low …-income non-oil-exporting countries. The relationship between agricultural imported inputs and agriculture productivity is …

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Implementing Sustainable Development Goals within the COVID-19 pandemic future challenges for the 2030 Agenda

Żbikowska, Anna Rydz - In: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe 25 (2022) 4, pp. 135-160

The COVID-19 pandemic has severely changed the world economy and jeopardized the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals on a large scale. Progress in meeting the goals of the 2030 Agenda has been significantly disrupted and stalled, undermining previous efforts of governments and...

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The Impacts of Financial Inclusion on Economic Development: Cases in Asian‑Pacific Countries

Van, Dinh Thi Thanh; Linh, Nguyen Ha - In: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe 22 (2019) 1, pp. 7-16

Financial inclusion efforts seek to ensure that all members of an economy can have access to and effectively use appropriate financial services. Improving financial inclusion has become a significant concern for developed and developing countries alike. There are many indicators of financial...

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Does trade reduce poverty? A view from Africa

Le Goff, Maëlan; Singh, Raju Jan - In: Journal of African Trade 1 (2014) 1, pp. 5-14

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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On the accuracy of trade and GDP statistics in Africa: Errors of commission and omission

Jerven, Morten - In: Journal of African Trade 1 (2014) 1, pp. 45-52

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The potential for internal trade and regional integration in Africa

Seid, Edris Hussein - In: Journal of African Trade 2 (2015) 1/2, pp. 19-50

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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Foreign direct investment, productivity and the technology gap in African economies

Malikane, Christopher; Chitambara, Prosper - In: Journal of African Trade 4 (2017) 1/2, pp. 61-74

This paper investigates the impact of foreign direct investment on total factor productivity conditional on relative backwardness in a panel of 45 African countries over the period 1980-2012. We use two measures of relative backwardness, namely: the distance from technological frontier and the...

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Aid for trade and Africa's trade performance: Evidence from bilateral trade flows with China and OECD countries

Lemi, Adugna - In: Journal of African Trade 4 (2017) 1/2, pp. 37-60

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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Trade facilitation and social welfare in Africa

Sakyi, Daniel; Bonuedi, Isaac; Opoku, Eric Evans Osei - In: Journal of African Trade 5 (2018) 1/2, pp. 35-53

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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