IMF Working Papers

Protection and Export Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa

By Dean A. DeRosa

September 1, 1990

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Dean A. DeRosa Protection and Export Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1990) accessed November 23, 2024
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Summary

This paper examines the extent and structure of nominal protection in a large sample of Sub-Saharan countries, and provides estimates of the effects of this protection on the exports of these countries. Both tariff rates and the frequency of nontariff barriers are found to be appreciably higher on average in the Sub-Saharan countries than in other developing countries. The empirical estimates, based on simulations of a simple model of trade and real exchange rate adjustment, suggest that protection reduces the value of the sample countries’ exports (relative to baseline levels) by between 15 and 33 percent per annum, and inhibits export diversification.

Subject: Exports, Imports, International trade, Tariffs, Taxes, Trade barriers, Trade policy

Keywords: Administered import, Administered protection in Sub-Saharan Africa, Administered protection system, B. nontariff barriers, Control measure, Economic growth, Exchange rate, Export performance, Export supply, Exports, Foreign exchange, Import control, Import demand, Import elasticity, Import restriction, Imports, NTB protection, Price elasticity, Sub-Saharan Africa, Targeted imports, Tariffs, Trade barriers, Trade policy, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    48

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1990/083

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0831990

  • ISBN:

    9781451954470

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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