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:
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.
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.
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.
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:
Download or read book Methodologies for Estimating Informal Crossborder Trade in Eastern and Southern Africa written by Chris Ackello-Ogutu and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Gender Assessment of African Regional Economic Communities Databases to Identify Gaps in Capturing the Activities of Women in Informal Cross Border Trade written by Joyce Malaba and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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:
Download or read book The Informal Cross Border Trade Survey Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oil Boom and Cross border Agricultural Trade in Central Africa written by Sabine Mireille Ntsama Etoundi and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Transport Prices and Costs in Africa written by Supee Teravaninthorn and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transport prices for most African landlocked countries range from 15 to 20 percent of import costs. This is approximately two to three times more than in most developed countries. It is well known that weak infrastructure can account for low trade performance. Thus, it becomes necessary to understand what types of regional transport services operate in landlocked African nations and it is critical to identify the regulation disparities and provision anomalies that hurt infrastructure efficiency, even when the physical infrastructure, such as a road transport corridor, exists. Transport Prices and Costs in Africa analyzes the various reasons for poor transport performance seen widely throughout Africa and provides a compelling case for a number of national and regional reforms that are vital to the effort to address the underlying causes of high transport prices and costs and service unpredictability seen in Africa. The book will greatly help supervisory authorities throughout the region develop and implement a comprehensive transport policy that will facilitate long-term growth.
Download or read book Informal Entrepreneurship and Cross Border Trade between Zimbabwe and South Africa written by Chikanda, Abel and published by Southern African Migration Programme. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zimbabwe has witnessed the rapid expansion of informal cross-border trading (ICBT) with neighbouring countries over the past two decades. Beginning in the mid-1990s when the country embarked on its Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP), a large number of people were forced into informal employment through worsening economic conditions and the decline in formal sector jobs.
Download or read book Handbook on Trade and Development written by Oliver Morrissey and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely Handbook comprehensively explores the complex relationships between trade and economic performance in developing countries, illustrating that it is not trade per se that is important but the context, at the firm, country and regional level, in which trade occurs.
Download or read book Borderless Africa written by Francis Mangeni and published by Hurst Publishers. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African Continental Free Trade Area, established in 2018, represented a monumental step forward for Africa in terms of meeting longstanding aspirations for greater economic and political integration. But it has nonetheless been met with scepticism in some quarters, both within the continent and beyond. Borderless Africa makes the case for the AfCFTA in an accessible and compelling way, without shying away from technical and academic debates. Francis Mangeni and Andrew Mold take us on a journey through the different dimensions and implications of the AfCFTA, the largest free-trade zone in the world, starting with its underlying economic rationale. Pointing to the numerous historical examples of successful regional integration, they argue that the African continent will need to take on board such lessons as the agreement is implemented. They discuss, too, the more controversial elements of the AfCFTA, including the freedom of movement protocol, contending that this should not be seen as an optional extra, but as an intrinsic part of the accord. Also exploring the role of external partners in the construction of an economically stronger, more united Africa, this fascinating study reveals how the AfCFTA is contributing to sustainable development across the continent.
Download or read book Informal Entrepreneurship and Cross Border Trade in Maputo Mozambique written by Raimundo, Ines and published by Southern African Migration Programme. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents the results of a SAMP survey of informal entrepreneurs connected to cross-border trade between Johannesburg and Maputou during 2014. The study sought to enhance the evidence base on the links between migration and informal entrepreneur-ship in Southern African cities and to examine the implications for municipal, national and regional policy.
Download or read book Informal Sector in Sub Saharan Africa written by Jantjie Xaba and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
