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Obstacles to Expanding Intra-African Trade
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Longo, Roberto Sekkat, Khalid |
| Copyright Year | 2001 |
| Abstract | This paper analyses the determinants of intra-African trade (IAT) to assess the potential obstacles to greater sub-regional trade. Both economic and political arguments suggest that increased IAT can foster a regional take-off. Trade linkages in Africa, however, are very weak. Official statistics show that IAT is a small fraction of each country's total trade and has remained roughly constant over the years. The main obstacles suggested in the literature include trade policy, insufficient infrastructure, non-convertibility of currencies, ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity and very high political instability. In order to rank such potential obstacles, the study develops an extended gravity model, using a new panel dataset for 41 African countries during the 1980-97 period. Bilateral trade flows between African countries and their major trading partners have been used to identify specific obstacles to IAT. Besides traditional gravity variables (income, income per capita . Ce Document technique analyse les determinants des echanges intra-africains afin d'evaluer les obstacles potentiels a leur expansion. Celle-ci pourrait favoriser le decollage economique du continent, comme le montrent les arguments tant economiques que politiques. Les relations commerciales sont toutefois extremement reduites en Afrique. D'apres les statistiques officielles, le commerce intra-africain ne represente qu'une faible part des echanges totaux de chaque pays et est reste a peu pres constant dans le temps. Les divers travaux identifient les principaux obstacles, notamment la politique commerciale, le manque d'infrastructures, la non convertibilite des monnaies, la diversite ethnique, culturelle et linguistique ainsi que la tres grande instabilite politique. Pour evaluer l'importance respective de ces obstacles, cette etude propose un modele gravitaire etendu reposant sur un nouvel ensemble de donnees couvrant 41 pays africains sur la periode 1980-1997. Les flux commerciaux . |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1787/042583120128 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/7462/1/ks-0083.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1787/042583120128 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
