This paper investigates the general effect of ECOWAS regional integration agreements on trade among its members, as well as the level of openness across ECOWAS. The panel dataset consists of bilateral flows of export from 15 ECOWAS countries for the period of 1983–2013, the cointegration...

This article explores the policy foundations behind regional trade in sub-Saharan Africa with particular focus on West Africa and its application in practice. It criticizes the relevance of the Economic Community of West African states (ECOWAS) and questions its effect on the primacy of the...

The objective of this research is to reexamine the constraints to export supply in ECOWAS countries, mainly in intra-regional trade. To achieve this objective, we use gravity model estimated with the Pseudo-Poisson Maximum Likelihood (PPML) techniques. Our results show that the number of...