Economic Obstacles to Expanding Intra-African Trade

World Development

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1309-1321

  Longo, Robert ^a   Sekkat, Khalid ^b  

^a International Fund for Agricultural Development   (Italy)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Africa; Development; Economic integration; Trade

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC POLICY; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; REGIONAL TRADE; TRADE PERFORMANCE;

AFRICA;

EID: 3242679029     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2004.02.006     Document Type: Article

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