Artikel
Trade facilitation and social welfare in Africa
Improving social welfare in the developing world remains a top priority on the global development agenda, as policymakers and international development partners worldwide strive to meet the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Using data on 40 African countries over the period 2010-2015, this paper investigates the extent to which trade facilitation contributes to improving social welfare in Africa. To do so, we construct three indices of trade facilitation capturing infrastructure, institutions, and market efficiency from several primary indicators. With regard to social welfare, we use education (net primary school enrollment rate), child health (under-5 mortality rate), population health (life expectancy), and human development (human development index). The system-GMM estimation technique is employed in order to address the problem of endogeneity. The main finding is that better trade facilitation results in improved social welfare outcomes. Our findings suggest that effective trade facilitation reforms, targeted particularly at improving infrastructure, institutions, and market efficiency, will likely be associated with improvements of social welfare in Africa.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Journal: Journal of African Trade ; ISSN: 2214-8515 ; Volume: 5 ; Year: 2018 ; Issue: 1/2 ; Pages: 35-53 ; Amsterdam: Elsevier
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
Empirical Studies of Trade
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
- Subject
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Trade facilitation
Social welfare
System-GMM
Africa
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Sakyi, Daniel
Bonuedi, Isaac
Opoku, Eric Evans Osei
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Veröffentlichung
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Elsevier
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Amsterdam
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2018
- DOI
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doi:10.1016/j.joat.2018.08.001
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- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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- Artikel
Associated
- Sakyi, Daniel
- Bonuedi, Isaac
- Opoku, Eric Evans Osei
- Elsevier
Time of origin
- 2018
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