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An Empirical Evaluation of Trade Potential in the Economic Community of West African States

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  • Ogunkola, E.O.

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Intra-ECOWAS trade has remaines very low despite the integrations efforts in the subregion in the past two decades. While nothing that these efforts have not progressed as scheduled, this study investigates what the West African countries stand to gain by way of increases in intra-regional trade flows if all trade barriers are removed. The study uses a gravity model whose result suggest that there is trade potential in the subregion.

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  • Ogunkola, E.O., 1998. "An Empirical Evaluation of Trade Potential in the Economic Community of West African States," Papers 84, African Economic Research Consortium.
    • Handle: RePEc:fth:afrirc:84
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    2. Simwaka Kisukyabo, 2011. "An Empirical Evaluation of Trade Potential in Southern African Development Community," Working Papers 235, African Economic Research Consortium, Research Department.
    3. Mohammed Shuaibu, 2015. "Does Trade Tariff Liberalisation Matter for Intra-ECOWAS Trade?," International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences Applied Research (IJBESAR), International Hellenic University (IHU), Kavala Campus, Greece (formerly Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology - EMaTTech), vol. 8(1), pages 83-112, August.
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    5. Colin Kirkpatrick & Matsuo Watanabe, 2005. "Regional Trade In Sub‐Saharan Africa: An Analysis Of East African Trade Cooperation, 1970–2001," Manchester School, University of Manchester, vol. 73(2), pages 141-164, March.
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    7. Sylvanus Kwaku Afesorgbor, 2013. "Revisiting the Effectiveness of African Economic Integration. A Meta-Analytic Review and Comparative Estimation Methods," Economics Working Papers 2013-13, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University.
    8. Sultan, Maryam & Munir, Kashif, 2015. "Export, Import and Total Trade Potential of Pakistan: A Gravity Model Approach," MPRA Paper 66621, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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    Keywords

    TRADE ; TRADE BARRIERS ; AFRICA;
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    JEL classification:

    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
    • F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations

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