Morocco’s trade policy is at a cross-roads. Historically, the country has had a very restrictive import regime that … preferential trade liberalization was taken. This choice was subsequently reaffirmed through the conclusion of further free trade … agreements with the United States and Turkey. The resulting shift in trade policy paradigms promises to create new opportunities …

This report describes the collaborative research project on Regional Integration and Trade Liberalization in sub …-Saharan Africa, including an articulation of its key components and objectives. The report identifies and discusses the issues the …

African countries are negotiating the African Continental Free Trade Area with the aim to spearhead global value chain … (GVC) trade among African countries as a driver for robust economic growth. This paper evaluates the participation of Sub …-Saharan African Regional Economic Communities (RECs) in GVC-related trade over the period 1990-2015 using measures of backward …

Global value chains offer countries unique opportunities to participate in and benefit from international trade by … chains positively impacts their growth; a positive impact which is driven by trade in commodities, knowledge intensive good …

African countries are negotiating the African Continental Free Trade Area with the aim to spearhead global value chain … (GVC) trade among African countries as a driver for robust economic growth. This paper evaluates the participation of Sub …-Saharan African Regional Economic Communities (RECs) in GVC-related trade over the period 1990-2015 using measures of backward …

Global value chains offer countries unique opportunities to participate in and benefit from international trade by … chains positively impacts their growth; a positive impact which is driven by trade in commodities, knowledge intensive good …

Employing data on the immigrant stocks of 43 African home countries who reside in 110 host countries and on trade flows … countries’ trade with the typical host country. Estimates from Tobit regression models indicate a one percent increase in the … African home country reveals that, in several instances, immigrants do not exert positive and significant influences on trade …

The purpose of this paper is to examine factors influencing export in bilateral trade in the Middle-East context. The … study considers the bilateral trade flows across three Gulf Cooperation Council countries - the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA …, combined as one group, and KSA, which has a relatively larger economic mass and population. Data related to bilateral trade was …

This work identifies the main characteristics of trade flows between Colombia and Venezuela with MERCOSUR, with … specific discussion of trade with Brazil. It aims at providing a broad view of such trade flows, as well as presenting some … descriptive indicators of such trade relationship. A special treatment is adopted for specific products, namely oil and oil …

have affected intra-GMS trade. The results indicate positive effects of the development of economic corridors on intra …-GMS trade in intermediate goods, especially for electric machinery. This implies that cross-border transport infrastructure in …