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Trade Policy and “Natural” Barrier-Induced Incidence of Protection and Aggregate Demand for Imports: Evidence from Malawi

African Journal of Economic Policy

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Title Trade Policy and “Natural” Barrier-Induced Incidence of Protection and Aggregate Demand for Imports: Evidence from Malawi
 
Creator Zgovu, EK
 
Subject Trade policy
Trade barriers
Transport costs
Demand for imports
Incidence of protection
 
Description This study investigated the relative importance of trade policy and “natural” barrier-induced incidence of protection and its effects on trade for a  landlocked Sub-Saharan African economy. The results showed that policy-induced protection has diminished with trade reforms whilst non-policy-induced protection remained high mainly because of high transport costs. An import demand system estimated using Johansen cointegration technique showed that natural barriers-induced incidence of protection has had strong disincentive effects on importing. Thus, Malawi needed to diversify and increase investment in strategic transport infrastructure to reduce “natural” barrier-induced trade costs for improved trade competitiveness.Key words: Trade policy; Trade barriers; Transport costs; Demand for imports; Incidence of protection
 
Publisher Department of Economics, University of Ibadan
 
Date 2014-01-21
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajep/article/view/99951
10.4314/ajep.v17i1.
 
Source African Journal of Economic Policy; Vol. 17 No. 1 (2010); 27-61
1116-4875
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajep/article/view/99951/89212