Recent studies on trade policy for low-income countries have established that high transport costs associated with poor quality infrastructure in countries such as Tanzania represent a barrier to trade and an additional source of protection to domestic producers of import competing goods. Using...

Recent studies on trade policy for low-income countries have established that high transport costs associated with poor quality infrastructure in countries such as Kenya represent a barrier to trade and an additional source of protection to domestic producers of import competing goods. This...

Recent studies on trade policy for low-income countries have established that high transport costs associated with poor quality infrastructure in countries such as Uganda represent a barrier to trade and an additional source of protection to domestic producers of import competing goods. This...

The principal aim of this paper is to identify, in the context of the relationship between openness and growth, factors that can account for the poor growth performance of sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Including inequality as a broad measure of policy distortions, attention focuses on...