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The hotel industry in Mauritius managing uncertainties and ensuring recovery
With the COVID-19 pandemic, the tourism industry has been the hardest hit in Mauritius due to health containment measures linked to travel restrictions and the closure of borders to prevent the spread of the virus. The hotel industry attempted to…
The European Green Deal as a vector of international agricultural trade transformation: structural and regulatory tensions on Colombia’s coffee and palm oil sectors
This This article analyzes the tensions of the European Green Deal on Colombian agribusiness, focusing on the coffee and palm oil sectors. It examines the key European legal instruments that affect agricultural trade and identifies the trade…
Trends in and determinants of South African maize exports in the post-deregulation era
Orientation: Agriculture is key to South Africa’s economy, but exports face high transport costs, logistical bottlenecks, and infrastructure constraints, limiting competitiveness. Research purpose: To examine how transport costs and logistical…
Jaffur, Z. K., Tandrayen-Ragoobur, V., & Seetanah, B. (2023). An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of COVID-19 on Trade: Evidence from a Small Island African Economy. Journal of African Trade, 10(1), 6.
This study investigates the potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the related containment measures on the trade system of Mauritius for the period January 2010 to June 2021. As the pandemic spread across the globe due to high…
Tandrayen-Ragoobur, V. (2024). The role of infrastructure in regional trade in the SADC region. In Regional Policy in the Southern African Development Community (pp. 123-144). Routledge.
This study examines the impact of infrastructural development on bilateral trade flows using a panel of 51 African countries from 2003 to 2015. An infrastructure-augmented gravity model was estimated with different indicators of infrastructural…