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Regional economic spillovers from the South Sudanese civil war: Evidence from formal and informal cross border trade

Regional economic spillovers from the South Sudanese civil war: Evidence from formal and informal cross border trade

Working paper State

Authors

Jakob Rauschendorfer

Researcher

Ben Shepherd

Principal, Developing Trade Consultants

This paper examines the impact of the South Sudanese civil war on trade in East Africa. In a first step, we employ a gravity model to examine the impact of civil conflict on the trade of neighbouring countries in a general sense and conduct a counterfactual simulation for the South Sudanese case.

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