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Book Synopsis Towards an Estimate of Informal Cross-border Trade in Africa by : Edwin Gaarder
Download or read book Towards an Estimate of Informal Cross-border Trade in Africa written by Edwin Gaarder and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official trade statistics typically capture only formal trade. In order to accurately monitor intra-African trade, it is important to understand the scale of informal trade. Reliable data on informal cross-border trade (ICBT) is also crucial to building awareness among policymakers of the importance of this phenomenon and to make a case for policy action. This paper provides a comparative analysis of the ratio of informal to formal trade for African countries for which data is available. Based on this assessment, the paper makes the first ever attempt to estimate the total value of ICBT in Africa. We estimate that the value of ICBT is significant across all African subregions. Our estimate found ICBT to be equivalent to between 7 and 16 per cent of formal intra-African trade flows, and to between 30 and 72 per cent of formal trade between neighbouring countries. Those figures are significant and have important implications for the value, composition and sophistication of intra-African trade, particularly between neighbouring countries. Within the context of efforts to implement the Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area, ICBT data collection must be institutionalized in order to facilitate accurate tracking of intra-African trade flows.
Book Synopsis Informal cross-border trade in Africa: How much? Why? And what impact? by : Bouet, Antoine
Download or read book Informal cross-border trade in Africa: How much? Why? And what impact? written by Bouet, Antoine and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informal cross-border trade (ICBT) represents a prominent phenomenon in Africa. Several studies suggest that for certain products and countries, the value of informal trade may meet or even exceed the value of formal trade. This paper provides a review of existing efforts to measure informal trade. We list 18 initiatives aimed at measuring ICBT in Africa. The paper also summarizes discussions conducted with many stakeholders in Africa between December 2016 and May 2018 regarding the measurement, the determinants, and the implications of ICBT. The methodologies used to measure ICBT in Africa differ widely, but they do confirm that informal trade in Africa is both sizeable and volatile. Both evidence on the determinants of ICBT and discussions with stakeholders suggest that policies should aim to reduce the existing costs associated with formal trade and provide positive incentives for traders and producers to move into the formal economy in order to avoid the loss of economic potential stemming from informal trade.
Book Synopsis Estimating the Informal Cross-border Trade in Central Africa by : Robert Nkendah
Download or read book Estimating the Informal Cross-border Trade in Central Africa written by Robert Nkendah and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Informal Cross-Border Trade in Africa by : Kathryn Pace
Download or read book Informal Cross-Border Trade in Africa written by Kathryn Pace and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As ICBT appears to be so large and is heavily linked to food security, economic development, and women’s empowerment, it is important to obtain accurate measurements of this type of trade. More accurate data can improve the statistical measurements of balance of payments and external accounts, improving global trade measurement and modeling, and facilitate the development of more accurate domestic food balance sheets. Overall, measurement of ICBT in Africa can provide a more accurate picture of other aspects related to informal trade, including information on informal labor markets and movement patterns of staple foods during periods of crises. Each of these provides the opportunity for better policymaking using reliable and accurate data.
Book Synopsis Informal Cross-border Trade in Africa by : Antoine Bouët
Download or read book Informal Cross-border Trade in Africa written by Antoine Bouët and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Informal Cross-border Trade in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) by : Nsolo J. Mijere
Download or read book Informal Cross-border Trade in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) written by Nsolo J. Mijere and published by OSSREA. This book was released on 2008-12-31 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates the existence and volume of informal cross-border trade (ICBT) in the mainland SADC member states. The four basic research questions for the study were as follows: Is there informal cross-border trade among the mainland SADC member states? Do the informal traders (ICBTs) contribute to the SADC national economies and to the economies of the region as a whole, and is this revenue acknowledged by the SADC nation governments? Does the ICBT facilitate the new mission of SADC: the promotion of social, economic and political integration in the Southern African region? Lastly and perhaps most importantly have the SADC member states or SADC as an organisation formally put in place trade policies and regulations that promote the development of ICBT in the region? The study further explores the extent to which the cross-border ethnic relationships of ICBTs assist and facilitate the activities of the informal cross-border micro-trade. These questions are investigated within the context of SADC, a regional grouping with a long geo-political history as well as common colonial and socio-economic experiences that have all impacted on and restrained formal trade among SADC member states.
Book Synopsis The Impact of Informal Cross-border Trade on Price, Production, and Inter-COMESA Trade in Eastern and Southern Africa by : John B. Chirwa
Download or read book The Impact of Informal Cross-border Trade on Price, Production, and Inter-COMESA Trade in Eastern and Southern Africa written by John B. Chirwa and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Informal Cross Border Trade Survey Report by :
Download or read book The Informal Cross Border Trade Survey Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Impact of Informal Cross-border Trade in Eastern and Southern Africa by : Sam K. Kallungia
Download or read book Impact of Informal Cross-border Trade in Eastern and Southern Africa written by Sam K. Kallungia and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Women Without Borders by : V. N. Muzvidziwa
Download or read book Women Without Borders written by V. N. Muzvidziwa and published by OSSREA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of a declining and collapsing national economy, this book presents the story of enterprising and entrepreneurial Zimbabwean women, operating as informal cross-border traders in the SADC region. The women are struggling against economic wants and deprivation, and devising their own initiatives to defeat poverty. The study relates their hopes, perceptions and strategies for managing the structural constraints at micro- and macro-levels that at once make their activities necessary, and simultaneously impose limitations on them.
Book Synopsis The Human Side of Regions by : Chris Changwe Nshimbi
Download or read book The Human Side of Regions written by Chris Changwe Nshimbi and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the activities of informal cross-border traders (ICBTs) in the contiguous borderlands of Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique, in order to determine the replicability and feasibility of the growth triangle phenomenon, which was imported as a concept for economic development from Southeast Asia. It also seeks to establish whether ICBTs can satisfy their economic needs from cross-border trade. Apart from the thorough review of relevant literature, participant observations, face-to-face interviews and focus group discussions were deployed to collect the data for the analysis contained in the paper. Primary data from the fieldwork conducted at various locations in the borderlands is qualitatively and statistically analyzed. ICBTs in these areas include affiliates of traders' associations and non-affiliates. The contiguous borderlands of the three countries comprise a young population of ICBTs with low incomes who have spent relatively few years in cross-border trade. ICBTs who have been longer in the informal trade business have graduated into formal traders. ICBT activities highlight their contribution to regional integration, from the bottom up. Informal cross-border trade provides employment and livelihoods, placing ICBTs outside extremely poor populations living below USD$1.25 per day. ICBTs also have innovative informal ways of accessing credit based on personal interactions and shared experiences with suppliers of goods. Legally establishing the growth triangle creates an environment that ICBTs exploit in order to satisfy their economic needs, especially with government facilitation.
Book Synopsis Existing data to measure African trade by : Mitaritonna, Cristina
Download or read book Existing data to measure African trade written by Mitaritonna, Cristina and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One finds a broad consensus in the literature regarding the lack of good information on trade in Africa, particularly intraregional trade. This paper attempts to identify gaps and remedies in measuring and tracking trade in Africa. We review the major international and regional databases that track trade in Africa, identifying the gaps therein. We also review the studies that have attempted to track informal trade between African countries, and we look at the major ongoing initiatives to track such informal trade. It appears that both international and regional databases suffer from a lack of reporting or from faulty reporting of African trade statistics. Informal trade flows pose an ongoing problem when measuring intraregional trade, although actual border-monitoring initiatives ongoing in selected countries constitute an interesting option for their quantification. When no direct monitoring method is available, estimating gravity equations represents an alternative with which to measure the potential trade between two partner countries, giving us an estimate of missing trade. A final avenue consists of estimating unregistered trade via national accounts data by comparing consumption, production, and declared trade.
Author :Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Publisher :Food & Agriculture Org. ISBN 13 : Total Pages :38 pages Book Rating :4./5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Formalization of informal trade in Africa by : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Download or read book Formalization of informal trade in Africa written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four approaches to formalizing informal trade -based on policy and legislation, partnerships, rights, and incentives and compliance- presented via case studies and recommendations, including regulatory reform, limiting business licensing and tackling corruption.
Book Synopsis The Informal Cross Border Trade Survey Report, 2013 by :
Download or read book The Informal Cross Border Trade Survey Report, 2013 written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Enhancing the Quality of Informal Cross-border Trade in the Economic Community of West African States by : Vereinte Nationen Wirtschaftskommission für Afrika
Download or read book Enhancing the Quality of Informal Cross-border Trade in the Economic Community of West African States written by Vereinte Nationen Wirtschaftskommission für Afrika and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Export Import Bank (Afreximbank) launched a joint one-year pilot project to collect data on informal cross-border trade along the Abidjan- Lagos corridor in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The African Union Commission and the ECOWAS Commission served as key project partners and the Eastern Africa Grain Council was identified as the lead project implementation partner. The ECA-Afreximbank pilot project had four main objectives: 1. Develop a harmonized gender-disaggregated informal cross-border trade data collection methodology for the ECOWAS region 2. Test and execute the harmonized informal cross-border trade data collection methodology on a pilot basis in the ECOWAS region 3. Prepare evidence-based policy recommendations on how to create more structured systems for informal cross-border trade with a view to supporting formalization in the medium to long term 4. Build awareness of the importance of institutionalizing informal cross-border trade data collection in the ECOWAS region.
Book Synopsis The Economic Significance of Intra-African Trade by : Andrew Mold
Download or read book The Economic Significance of Intra-African Trade written by Andrew Mold and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To make its case, the paper starts with a theoretical and empirical review of the drivers of trade growth globally, highlighting the role played by regional trade agreements. Because of econometric and methodological errors, earlier studies purportedly showing that previous regional integration efforts on the continent were ineffective are wrong: Recent research points to these agreements boosting intra-African exports by 27 to 32 percent on average. Moreover, contrary to received wisdom, there is nothing out-of-the-ordinary in the existing levels of intra-regional trade; indeed, by some metrics, parts of Africa display a stronger degree of trade integration than comparable regions elsewhere in the world. Finally, the paper provides a recalculation of the intensity of intra-African trade, taking into account structural economic differences and the prevalence of informal cross-border trade, to arrive at a set of new estimates. The paper ends by arguing that, as AfCFTA implementation begins, it is time to change the narrative and to start to "talk up" intra-African trade
Book Synopsis Throwing Out the Baby to Keep the Bathwater by : Kate Meagher
Download or read book Throwing Out the Baby to Keep the Bathwater written by Kate Meagher and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
