This book tackles one of Africa’s most pressing questions: how to translate the promise of continental integration into measurable economic outcomes. Using the TRADE-DSM (Decision Support Model) alongside product space methodology, the book…
This book is the third volume in a forward-looking series on the future of international trade and development, and it addresses one of the most pressing questions confronting Africa today: How to convert continental integration from political…
This This article analyzes the tensions of the European Green Deal on Colombian agribusiness, focusing on the coffee and palm oil sectors. It examines the key European legal instruments that affect agricultural trade and identifies the trade…
Despite starting with comparable economic conditions in the mid-20th century, Southeast Asia (SEA) and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have followed different economic trajectories. SEA has emerged as a widely recognised model of successful economic…
In Africa’s efforts to achieve economic growth and enhance integration, the focus on intra-regional trade has intensified, fuelled by geographical proximity, and interconnected market dynamics. However, significant obstacles remain, one of which…
Orientation: Agriculture is key to South Africa’s economy, but exports face high transport costs, logistical bottlenecks, and infrastructure constraints, limiting competitiveness.
Research purpose: To examine how transport costs and logistical…
This study investigates the potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the related containment measures on the trade system of Mauritius for the period January 2010 to June 2021. As the pandemic spread across the globe due to high…