Assessing RTAs inter-regional trade enhancement in Sub-Saharan Africa

Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) have been advocated as one way of securing trade liberalization by the IMF and World Bank. The study uses the gravity model of bilateral trade flows to empirically investigate the effects of RTAs on intra-regional trade on a set of 46 Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countr...

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Main Authors: John Kagochi, Nazif Durmaz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-01-01
Series:Cogent Economics & Finance
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23322039.2018.1482662