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West African Regional Economics Integration and Colonial Ties

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  • Kanfitine Lare-Lantone

    (University of Lomé, Togo and Sheridan College, Ontario, Canada)

  • Emmanuel Anoruo

    (Coppin State University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)

Abstract

We investigated the impact inherited colonial ties exert on the regional economic integration of the ECOWAS. For, we substituted in a SVAR framework, regional members’ domestic structural shocks with supply price shocks from former colonial countries (France, Portugal, and the UK), the region, and the global economy to assess their effects on their real sector convergence variables. Findings reveal that regional supply price shocks contributed the most to changes in output, supply price shocks from the former colonial country contributed the most to changes in regional trade, and regional supply price shocks contributed the most to changes in investments. The predominance of pairs of countries of different colonial heritages sharing symmetric responses to the external supply price shocks is due in part to the proximity effect. Comparatively, member countries exhibited more synchronous output, regional trade, and investments responses to the supply price shocks than they did with monetary variables. They also exhibit more real variables convergence. Integrazione economica della regione dell’Africa orientale e legami coloniali In questo articolo si esamina l’impatto che i legami con i paesi ex-colonizzatori esercitano sull’integrazione economica dell’area ECOWAS. È stato adottato un modello SVAR nel quale gli shock strutturali interni dei membri di quest’area sono stati sostituiti con shock dei prezzi delle forniture provenienti da paesi ex-colonizzatori (Francia, Portogallo e Regno Unito), da paesi membri dell’area e dall’economia globale al fine di valutare gli effetti sull’economia reale. I risultati evidenziano che gli shock dei prezzi delle forniture interne hanno avuto effetti maggiori sulla produzione, gli shock dei prezzi delle forniture dai paesi ex-colonizzatori sul commercio interno all’area e gli shock dei prezzi di forniture interne all’area stessa sugli investimenti. La predominanza di coppie di paesi con eredità coloniale diversa che hanno risposto in maniera simmetrica agli shock dei prezzi delle forniture esterne all’area è in parte dovuto all’effetto di prossimità. Analogamente, vi sono stati paesi membri dell’area che, a seguito di shock dei prezzi, hanno avuto risposte più sincrone sulla produzione, sul commercio regionale e sugli investimenti di quanto non fosse accaduto con le variabili monetarie. Si è riscontrata anche una convergenza maggiore delle variabili reali.

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  • Kanfitine Lare-Lantone & Emmanuel Anoruo, 2025. "West African Regional Economics Integration and Colonial Ties," Economia Internazionale / International Economics, Camera di Commercio Industria Artigianato Agricoltura di Genova, vol. 78(3), pages 419-486, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:ris:ecoint:022217
    DOI: 10.65644/EIIE.078.03.0419
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    JEL classification:

    • E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
    • H30 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - General
    • F45 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - Macroeconomic Issues of Monetary Unions
    • O42 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Monetary Growth Models

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