Operational cros-border risks in intra-African trade

Abstract

Africa is in the unfortunate position of being the continent with the lowest intra-continental trade volumes and the lowest contribution to world trade. Looking at operational cross-border risks in intra-African trade is likely to shed some light on the factors that influence this situation and provide some insight not previously available. The study examines a number of theoretical models and conceptual frameworks and then uses the CAGE Distance Framework proposed by Ghemawat (2001)to develop an empirically-based category scheme to classify the data.