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 …

The paper examines Senegal’s growth performance from the perspective of its povertyreducing and distributional …

This survey of the recent literature asks: how important is trade policy for poverty reduction? We consider the effects …-level research, and case studies) supports the view that trade openness contributes greatly to growth. Moreover, trade openness does … not have systematic effects on the poor beyond its effect on overall growth. Trade policy is only one of many determinants …

China's sectoral trade composition, product quality mix, and import content of processing exports have all changed … substantially during the past decade. This has rendered trade elasticities estimated using aggregate data highly unstable, with more …