This empirical study aims to investigate the effects of political instability on economic volatility and monetary policy conduct. The econometric methodology adopted is the Panel Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (PARDL). The instability variable was…
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…
Foreign currency shortages remain a perennial challenge in Zimbabwe leading to several spillover effects such as shortages in electricity, raw materials, fuel, inflation among other market distortions. The central bank introduced the Dutch Auction…
Le financement de la transition écologique en Afrique francophone: le rôle de la politique monétaire
The COVID-19 pandemic and the slowdown in the global economy are hitting hard many African countries, especially those already struggling with the negative effects of climate change. In this context, transitioning towards a more ecologically…
Resources for export promotion are scarce, and incorrect market selection can be costly. In the literature, the gravity model, International Trade Center’s Export Potential Map, and decision support model all estimate export potential values.…
The project's main objective is to study the macroeconomic and trade impact on different economic sectors in Brazil, Argentina and other emerging countries (India, Russia, and South Africa) arising from the creation of the Regional Comprehensive…
Arab intra-regional trade in agro-food accounts for more than half of the total Arab agro-food trade, displaying strong “trade-intensity” over the past decade. This indicates the potential of developing agro-food regional production networks…
This empirical study provides an impact assessment of Oman’s free trade agreements (FTAs) on the productivity and exporting capability of its local manufacturing firms. It underlines the significance of FTAs in the development of the country’s…
This study establishes the hazard rate of exports from Kenya and identifies factors that explain the duration of exports using a discrete-time random effects logit regression model. A difference-in-differences estimator is used to assess the effects…
Globalisation has become an unavoidable incidence with almost every country involved in some new form of economic integration arrangement. In Africa, the largest trade agreement, the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) was recently…