Policy Recipe for Fostering Regional Integration Through Infrastructure Development and Coordination in West Africa

Deen-Swarray, Mariama; Adekunle, Bamidele; Odularu, Gbadebo

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-01282-7_2

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“…In the context of the Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs), there have been extensive studies [41][42][43]. Since the independence of African countries, many RTAs have organized to accelerate the sustainable development of regional economic interactions.…”

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Trade Facilitation and Its Impacts on the Economic Welfare and Sustainable Development of the ECOWAS Region

Safaeimanesh

Jenkins

2020

Sustainability

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The facilitation of trade is a principal objective in the context of increasing regional trade integration for the achievement of sustainable development goals. The purpose of this study is to estimate the potential annual economic gain to be had from trade facilitation by the coastal countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). These measures would decrease border and documentary compliance time and costs of the administration of international trade. A partial equilibrium welfare economics framework is used that employs sets of export supply and import demand elasticities for each country that are derived using a general equilibrium estimation method. The annual economic welfare gains resulting from the reduction of excessive trade compliance costs for the region are estimated to between US$1.6 billion to US$2.7 billion (2019 prices). This is between 0.24% and 0.42% of the combined GDPs of these countries. The welfare gain is between 6% and 10% of the combined governments’ budgets assigned for education, and is between 33% and 58% of their budgets allocated for health. In the absence of reform, these inefficient practices waste an amount equal to between 15% and 26% of the annual net official development assistance these countries receive.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Trade Facilitation and Its Impacts on the Economic Welfare and Sustainable Development of the ECOWAS Region

Safaeimanesh

Jenkins

2020

Sustainability

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“…Based on the gravity model literature (such as Abe & Wilson, 2009;Deen-Swarray et al, 2012;Ismail & Mahyideen, 2015;Baita, 2020), improvement in transport infrastructure (maritime transport, ratio of roads network to population and air transport) and improvement in ICT infrastructure (number of internet users, fixed broadband internet subscription, fixed telephone subscription, and other ICT indicators) tend to reduce trade costs associated with trade-related infrastructure, while otherwise increase it. The model 1 estimates in Table 5 reveal that aggregate GDP measured by the economic size of both Nigeria and its trading partners exerts a positive and significant impact on its aggregate exports.…”

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Inefficient Infrastructure Services and Trade Flows: Evidence from Nigeria and its Trading Partners

Wahab¹

2023

Preprint

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This study examines the relative impacts of transport and information and communications technology (ICT) components of trade-related infrastructure on bilateral trade flows between Nigeria and its major trading partners. An augmented standard gravity model that featured variables for the transport infrastructure component (maritime transport, ratio of total roads network to total population and airport infrastructure) and ICT component (the number of internet users, fixed broadband internet, and telephone subscribers) was estimated using bilateral trade data on 22 major trading partners of Nigeria for the period 2005-2021. Panel instrumental variables technique (pooled two-stage least squares technique leveraged on fixed and random effects models) was used for the analysis. The findings show that both the transport component and ICT component had a significant impact on trade flows between Nigeria and its trading partners. In the exports model, the differential impact of the transport infrastructure component is higher than the ICT component, but the differential impact of the ICT component is greater in the imports model. This suggests that efficient provision of both transport and ICT infrastructure facilitates trade while the inefficient provision of either or both hinders it. Therefore, greater attention must be placed on improving both components.

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“…Following the footsteps of Kenya and Ethiopia, Tanzania embraces the race for development in railway transportation through the construction of the Standard Gauge Railway network. In West Africa, there exist railway networks, but the need for improvement is imminent for better service provision and facilitation of economic activities among West African countries [11]. Tis stretches to South African countries with evidence of poor maintenance and operation of railway networks leading to a decline in transportation service provision statistics [12].…”

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Development of Railway Information System to Improve Railway Data Aggregation and Analysis in Tanzania

Adam,

Dida,

Nyambo

2023

Mobile Information Systems

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For more than three decades, railway transportation in Tanzania has been in an on-and-off state even though a railway network exists. This is due to damaged tracks, a lack of proper management, and railway operational information. Recently, the Tanzanian government made efforts to revive railway transportation by reopening a few train routes and constructing a new and improved railway network. Even with revived operations, the digitalization process of railway data is still at a low pace as most data is populated in excel sheets for analysis; the major source of data being paper-based. With the use of a mixed research method, this paper provides an information system in the form of mobile and web applications, which provide a platform for populating railway data through the web application accessible to the railway corporation and disseminating railway information to the public through the mobile application. With these platforms, data aggregation and analysis have been made easier and more understandable than the use of excel sheets alone. The results show great possibilities for increased use of digital techniques such as web mapping, which contribute to higher data accuracy and better visualization of railway information that can be disseminated to the public.

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Policy Recipe for Fostering Regional Integration Through Infrastructure Development and Coordination in West Africa

Cited by 14 publications

References 27 publications

Trade Facilitation and Its Impacts on the Economic Welfare and Sustainable Development of the ECOWAS Region

Trade Facilitation and Its Impacts on the Economic Welfare and Sustainable Development of the ECOWAS Region

Inefficient Infrastructure Services and Trade Flows: Evidence from Nigeria and its Trading Partners

Development of Railway Information System to Improve Railway Data Aggregation and Analysis in Tanzania

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