This paper explores the flow of illicit narcotics transiting West Africa. It is divided into four sections, providing … protection and to invest drug profits from West Africa, and finally, it provides concluding remarks that could inform future …

This paper investigates the role of trade costs in exporter dynamics in Africa. In comparison to exporters from other … destinations. This suggests that Africa’s exporting activity is volatile and subject to a lot of experimentation, with exporters … explaining exporter performance in Africa vis-à-vis other regions, but also among African countries. Trade costs play a …

scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic …-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development … programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa …