book chapter
Determinants of African agricultural exports
Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor | 2018 | Pages: 25
Publisher(s): international food policy research institute (ifpri)
Open Access | CC BY-4.0
Citation
Tadesse, Getaw; and Badiane, Ousmane. 2018. Determinants of African agricultural exports. In Africa agriculture trade monitor 2018, eds. Ousmane Badiane, Sunday P. Odjo, and Julia Collins. Chapter 5, Pp. 85-109. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896293496_05
Chapter 5 provides an in-depth examination of the determinants of African agricultural trade performance. The chapter reviews broad categories of trade determinants, including production capacity, the cost of trade, trade policies, domestic agricultural supports, and global market shocks. The chapter then develops a gravity model to assess the relative importance of determinants of African trade and of different trade constraints, discussing how these constraints have changed over time and vary across countries.