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National Trade Policies and Smuggling in Africa: The Case of The Gambia and Senegal

Much of inter-regional trade in Africa is unrecorded and consists of smuggling. The Gambia is almost wholly enclosed within Senegal, yet official trade statistics show almost no trade between the two countries, failing to capture large-scale smuggling. Smuggling reflects pre-colonial traditional tra...

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Published in:	World development 2009-03, Vol.37 (3), p.595-606
Main Authors:	Golub, Stephen S., Mbaye, Ahmadou Aly
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Subjects:	Africa Estimation Gambia International trade Price differentiation Prices re-exports Senegal Smuggling smuggling international trade re-exports Africa Senegal The Gambia Studies The Gambia Trade policy Trade relations Trade volume
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