An evaluation of the US African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade arrangement with Sub-Saharan African countries
This paper evaluates the impact of the US African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade arrangement on the growth of exports from Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Using several variants of propensity score matching techniques, results show that the impact of AGOA on SSA exports is generally n...
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| author | Busani Moyo Mamello Nchake Blessing Chiripanhura |
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This paper evaluates the impact of the US African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade arrangement on the growth of exports from Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Using several variants of propensity score matching techniques, results show that the impact of AGOA on SSA exports is generally negative and statistically significant. The same conclusion is reached using the difference in differences (DID) method. Further, descriptive statistics show that the proportions of Africa’s exports going to the EU and the US since 2011 have been declining and the export shares of the three largest exporters to the US, namely, South Africa, Nigeria and Angola, are falling.
JEL codes: F13, F14
Keywords: AGOA, SSA, propensity score matching
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| spelling | doaj.art-a0c432d6fe6f4ee6b67c6f547717beb02023-02-03T16:42:37ZengAssociazione Economia civilePSL Quarterly Review2037-36352037-36432019-01-017128710.13133/2037-3643/14251An evaluation of the US African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade arrangement with Sub-Saharan African countriesBusani Moyo0Mamello Nchake1Blessing Chiripanhura2University of South AfricaNational University of LesothoOffice for National Statistics This paper evaluates the impact of the US African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade arrangement on the growth of exports from Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Using several variants of propensity score matching techniques, results show that the impact of AGOA on SSA exports is generally negative and statistically significant. The same conclusion is reached using the difference in differences (DID) method. Further, descriptive statistics show that the proportions of Africa’s exports going to the EU and the US since 2011 have been declining and the export shares of the three largest exporters to the US, namely, South Africa, Nigeria and Angola, are falling. JEL codes: F13, F14 Keywords: AGOA, SSA, propensity score matching https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa04/psl_quarterly_review/article/view/14251AGOASSApropensity score matching |
| spellingShingle | Busani Moyo Mamello Nchake Blessing Chiripanhura An evaluation of the US African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade arrangement with Sub-Saharan African countries PSL Quarterly Review AGOA SSA propensity score matching |
| title | An evaluation of the US African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade arrangement with Sub-Saharan African countries |
| title_full | An evaluation of the US African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade arrangement with Sub-Saharan African countries |
| title_fullStr | An evaluation of the US African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade arrangement with Sub-Saharan African countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | An evaluation of the US African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade arrangement with Sub-Saharan African countries |
| title_short | An evaluation of the US African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade arrangement with Sub-Saharan African countries |
| title_sort | evaluation of the us african growth and opportunity act agoa trade arrangement with sub saharan african countries |
| topic | AGOA SSA propensity score matching |
| url | https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa04/psl_quarterly_review/article/view/14251 |
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