Determinants of International Trade in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparison with South East Asia
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Determinants of International Trade in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparison with South East Asia
Date Written: October 4, 2011
Abstract
Underlying a model of decomposing a country’s trade performance into supply and demand conditions, our benchmarking analyses based on evidence from one-step system-GMM estimations using unbalanced panel data from 44 SSA and 11 SEA economies over the period 1995-2006 suggest that the trade performance of SSA is determined by internal supply, demand and import financing conditions. Export is explained by supply side factors but not by global demand where as import is driven by domestic demand but not by foreign supply access. However, SEA trade (exports and imports) is influenced by both domestic and international supply and demand side forces.
Keywords: Trade, Supply Capacity, Foreign Market, Panel Data, Benchmarking, SSA
JEL Classification: E22, F15, F43
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