Documentos e informes
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Benefits of the ECOWAS CET and EPA will outweigh costs in Nigeria, but competitiveness is the real issue (Inglés)
This note analyzes the benefits of ECOWAS Common External Tariff (CET) and Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) will outweigh costs in Nigeria, but competitiveness is the real issue. After decade-long...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 93642 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Coste,Antoine,Von Uexkull,Jan Erik
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Domestic obstacles to trade and transport in Nigeria and their impact on competitiveness (Inglés)
This note analyzes domestic obstacles to trade and transport in Nigeria and their impact on competitiveness. Among other sources, the note uses data collected during a field study on livestock and leather...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 91124 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Coste,Antoine
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Improving behavior at borders to promote trade formalization : the charter for cross-border traders (Inglés)
Informal trade supports the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of households in Africa, reaches markets and clients that are underserved by formal channels, and contributes to regional food security...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 89473 Fecha del documento: 1 de julio de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Brenton,Paul,Dihel,Nora Carina,Hoppe,Mombert,Soprano,Carmine
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Tourism in Africa : harnessing tourism for growth and improved livelihoods (Inglés)
Tourism is one of the key industries driving the current economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). From a small base of just 6.7 million visitors in 1990, SSA attracted 33.8 million visitors in 2012...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 81835 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Christie,Iain Thornton,Fernandes,Eneida Herrera,Messerli,Hannah R.,Twining-Ward,Louise D
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Reducing dwell time to boost efficiency at the Port of Cotonou (Inglés)
The Port of Cotonou is of primary importance to economic growth and diversification in Benin. Furthermore, given its key geographic location as a port serving Niger and other land-locked countries to its...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 79712 Fecha del documento: 1 de julio de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Macwilliam,David Cal
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Unshackling women traders : cross-border trade of Eru from Cameroon to Nigeria : Emanciper les femmes commercantes : les echanges transfrontaliers d'Okok du Cameroun au Nigeria (Francés)
Eru, a vegetable found in the forest, plays an important role in trade between countries in West and Central Africa, especially between Cameroon and Nigeria. This note analyses the environment for trade...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 79711 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Ndumbe,Njie Louis
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Unshackling women traders : cross-border trade of Eru from Cameroon to Nigeria (Inglés)
Eru, a vegetable found in the forest, plays an important role in trade between countries in West and Central Africa, especially between Cameroon and Nigeria. This note analyses the environment for trade...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 79711 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Ndumbe,Njie Louis
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Where informal procedures are quasi-formal : cross-border trade between West and Central Africa (Inglés)
This note outlines the critical barriers that constrain trade between Nigeria and Cameroon, describes the practical norms that have emerged as a response to those constraints, and recommends key reforms...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 78406 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Amin,Mukhtar Ahmed,Hoppe,Mombert
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Regional trade of food staples and crop inputs in West Africa (Inglés)
Rising prices for basic food products are back in the headlines and when food prices go up poor consumers in Africa, who spend the majority of their income on simple foodstuffs, suffer. Rising food prices...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 76221 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Keyser,John C.
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How to push efficiency enhancing reforms at the port of Dar Es Salaam? (Inglés)
The Port of Dar Es Salaam, the second largest in East Africa after Mombasa, is one of the least efficient on the planet, hindering trade and economic expansion not just for Tanzania but also for neighboring...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 76220 Fecha del documento: 1 de febrero de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Morisset,Jacques,Moret, Charles,Regolo,Julie
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Africa can help feed Africa : removing barriers to regional trade in food staples (Inglés)
Africa is not achieving its potential in food trade. The growing demand for food in Africa is increasingly being met by imports from the global market. This coupled with rising global food prices is leading...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 76219 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Brenton,Paul
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Counting the costs of compliance with trade requirements from a value chain perspective : evidence from Southern Africa (Inglés)
This note uses a value chain perspective to show how the cost of complying with regional trade requirements affects agriculture competitiveness and rural incomes. On the one hand, phytosanitary rules...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 72848 Fecha del documento: 1 de julio de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Keyser,John C.
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Regional quality standards for food staples in Africa : harmonization not always appropriate (Inglés)
One approach to improve the trade environment for food staples that has gained considerable momentum and widespread support in recent years has been to harmonize quality standards across countries and...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 72854 Fecha del documento: 1 de julio de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Keyser,John C.
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Regional quality standards for food staples in Africa : harmonization not always appropriate : Normes de qualité régionales pour les denrées alimentaires en Afrique : L'harmonisation n'est pas toujours appropriée (Francés)
One approach to improve the trade environment for food staples that has gained considerable momentum and widespread support in recent years has been to harmonize quality standards across countries and...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 72854 Fecha del documento: 1 de julio de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Keyser,John C.
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Addressing standards management challenges from a strategic trade perspective (Inglés)
Export diversification and expansion is an integral part of the Government of Tanzania's trade and competitiveness strategy. Nontraditional agricultural exports, notably in fish and horticulture products...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 71295 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Kweka,Josaphat Paul,Zacchia,Paolo B.,Mehta,Elizabeth G.
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Assessing the price raising impact of non-tariff measures in Africa (Inglés)
Ample anecdotal evidence summarized in, inter alia, Gillson (2011) and Charalambides and Gillson (2011) suggests that non-tariff measures (NTMs), whether protectionist in intent or not, raise trade costs...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 67998 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Cadot,Olivier,Gourdon,Julien
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Removing barriers to trade between Ghana and Nigeria : strengthening regional integration by implementing ECOWAS commitments : Elimination des obstacles au commerce entre le Ghana et le Nigeria : Renforcer l'intégration régionale par la mise en ?uvre des engagements de la CEDEAO (Francés)
Global markets offer important opportunities for companies in developing countries. By exporting to larger markets, the companies can increase production, growth, and employment at a faster pace than by...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 67999 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Hoppe,Mombert,Aidoo,Francis Kwame Frempong
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Where informal procedures are quasi-formal : cross-border trade between West and Central Africa : Formalisation des procédures informelles - le commerce transfrontalier entre l'Afrique occidentale et centrale (Francés)
This note outlines the critical barriers that constrain trade between Nigeria and Cameroon, describes the practical norms that have emerged as a response to those constraints, and recommends key reforms...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 78406 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Amin,Mukhtar Ahmed,Hoppe,Mombert
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Removing barriers to trade between Ghana and Nigeria : strengthening regional integration by implementing ECOWAS commitments (Inglés)
Global markets offer important opportunities for companies in developing countries. By exporting to larger markets, the companies can increase production, growth, and employment at a faster pace than by...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 67999 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Hoppe,Mombert,Aidoo,Francis Kwame Frempong
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Import bans in Nigeria increase poverty (Francés)
Nigeria currently prohibits importation of 24 groups of items. These include a range of food products, certain medicines, industrial products such as glass bottles and textile fabrics and consumer products...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 67874 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Cadot,Olivier,Gourdon,Julien,Hoppe,Mombert,Treichel,Volker