SESRIC and International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) of the Islamic Development Bank Group (IsDB) conducted this joint research study to assess the potential impacts of trade facilitation measures on intra-AfCFTA trade flows in five landlocked African OIC Member Countries, namely Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Niger and Uganda. The study employs a diverse set of data and rigorous methodology to investigate gains from trade facilitation and improved logistics infrastructure in these selected countries by simulating an improvement in their index scores to the African and/or world average.

According to the study, there are significant gains from trade facilitation and improved logistics infrastructure. This benefit is significantly higher in the case of African countries. While infrastructure investments in logistics generate the largest gains, landlocked countries can attain additional gains from efficiency improvements in trade facilitation measures. Nevertheless, aggregate impact of logistics performance remain significantly higher than the impacts of soft trade facilitation measures in both landlocked and coastal countries. This study also presents the potential gains for the five landlocked African OIC countries in case of a simulated improvement in their trade facilitation performance.

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• Impacts of Trade Facilitation and Logistics Performance on Trade Flows: The Case of Landlocked African OIC Countries (English)