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Road infrastructure and intra-community trade in the Central African Economic and Monetary Community

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DOI: 10.18535/ijsrm/v10i1.em8· Pages: 2905-2913· Vol. 10, No. 01, (2022)· Published: January 12, 2022
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Abstract

We examine the contribution of domestic and interstates road infrastructures to trade flow between member countries of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC). Theories of international economics as well as those of the new economic geography suggest a positive contribution of both road infrastructures to intraregional trade. A gravity model of international trade is estimated to evaluate this theoretical prediction in the CEMAC zone. Results confirm a positive contribution of interstate road infrastructure to intra-Community trade, but show no evidence of a positive contribution of domestic road infrastructure to intra- CEMAC trade.

Keywords

road infrastructureintra-Community tradegravity model

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Serge KAMGAING
Faculty of Economics and Management; University of Maroua
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Jean Claude SAHA
Faculty of Economics and Management; University of Yaoundé II
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Faculty of Economics and Management; University of Maroua
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