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Revisiting the Trade Impact of the African Growth and Opportunity Act : A Synthetic Control Approach (English)

This study examines the impact of the African Growth and Opportunity Act using the synthetic control method, a quasi-experimental approach. The novelty in the approach is that it addresses problems of estimation that are prevalent in nonexperimental methods used to analyze the impact of preferential trade agreements. The findings show that most of the eligible countries registered gains in exports due to the African Growth and Opportunity Act. However...
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Kassa,Woubet; Coulibaly,Souleymane.

Revisiting the Trade Impact of the African Growth and Opportunity Act : A Synthetic Control Approach (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 8993 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/673071566330630943

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