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"Unraveling the contribution of Trade Facilitation to Food Security: A Panel Data Analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa" by Takpara, Moukaila Mouzamilou Abstract Abstract Food insecurity remains a serious and global concern that continues to escalate due to many factors such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine crisis, which has exposed structural vulnerabilities of developing economies, particularly African countries among them. This paper analyzes the contribution of trade facilitation to food security in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). With the principal component analysis, we constructed four aggregate indicators of trade facilitation namely physical infrastructure, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), business environment and border efficiency as well as four dimensions of food security (availability, access, utilization, stability) over the period 2005-2019. The analysis uses a sample of 36 SSA countries and adopts the fixed effects and the two stage least square methods. Results show that improvement in trade facilitation enhances food security in SSA. This effect is evident in the composite food security and in two dimensions (access and utilization). Similarly, trade facilitation indicators, namely business environment and ICT are the most promising in SSA's fight against food insecurity. Moreover, the heterogeneity results show also that countries with low rural population experienced positive effects of facilitating trade than countries with high rural population. The results highlight the need for improving regulatory environment as well as simplifying and harmonizing trade procedures to enhance food security in SSA. Keywords: Trade facilitation, food security, two-stage least squares, Sub-Saharan Africa. Jel Classification : F13 ; F14 ; Q18. |
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- Economic development - Infrastructure - Non-Tariff barriers - Econometric methods - Africa (Central) - Africa (East) - Africa (North) - Africa (Southern) - Africa (West) |
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