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标题：Assessing RTAs inter-regional trade enhancement in Sub-Saharan Africa
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作者：John Kagochi ; Nazif Durmaz ; Christian Nsiah 等
期刊名称：Cogent Economics & Finance
电子版ISSN：2332-2039
出版年度：2018
卷号：6
期号：1
页码：1-14
DOI：10.1080/23322039.2018.1482662
语种：English
出版社：Taylor and Francis Ltd
摘要：Abstract Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) have been advocated as one way of securing trade liberalization by the IMF and World Bank. The study uses the gravity model of bilateral trade flows to empirically investigate the effects of RTAs on intra-regional trade on a set of 46 Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries during 1995–2011 period. Our results indicate that three of the four selected RTAs have positive and statistically significant effect on the trade among the sub-Saharan African countries. Other included variables including distance, common language, shared border, shared colonial links, and common currency are found to be important determinants of trade among SSA countries.
关键词：inter-regional trade ; sub-Saharan Africa ; RTAs