This paper argues that SSA has derived a minimal growth benefit from trade because of what it exports and that the detrimental effect of primary commodity export dependence on SSA growth can be captured by two structural variables, natural barriers to trade (NBT, trade costs) and natural...

This paper on Trade Agreements within SSA, is an assessment of the ex post bilateral trade effect of the European Union-African Caribbean Pacific Preferential Trade Agreement (EU-ACP PTA) and sub-regional regional trade agreements (RTAs) on bilateral trade involving SSA countries. The main...

Underlying a model of decomposing a country's trade performance into supply and demand conditions, our comparative analyses based on evidence from one-step system GMM estimations using unbalanced panel data from 44 sub-Saharan African (SSA) and 11 South East Asian (SEA) economies over the period...

Underlying a model of decomposing a country's trade performance into supply and demand conditions, our benchmarking analyses based on evidence from one-step system-GMM estimations using unbalanced panel data from 44 SSA and 11 SEA economies over the period 1995-2006 suggest that the trade...

This study assesses the simultaneous openness hypothesis that trade modulates foreign direct investment (FDI) to induce positive net effects on total factor productivity (TFP) dynamics. Twenty-five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and data for the period 1980 to 2014 are used. The empirical...