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The Relationship Between Cote D'ivoire's Political Situation And Burkina Faso's Maritime Transit Cargo Throughput That...
ISSN: 2026 - 6480
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The Relationship Between Cote D'ivoire's Political Situation And Burkina Faso's Maritime Transit Cargo Throughput That...
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Publisher: Koforidua Technical University
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Abstract
Ghana rose from an insignificant position in 1997/8 to become the topmost maritime transit corridor for landlocked countries in West Africa and particularly for Burkina Faso around 2006. Since then, Ghana's transit corridor has, generally, been recording a declining trend in the yearly percentage throughput of Burkina Faso's maritime transit cargo that is transported along it. Popular opinion in the transit business in West Africa suggests a negative relationship between the level of Ce d'Ivoire's political stability and Burkina Faso's maritime transit cargo throughput that is transported along Ghana's transit corridor. This work, using data drawn from 1998, 2000 and 2002-2014 investigated the empirical veracity of such an opinion. Data were sourced from World Governance Indicators and also through questionnaires that were administered to a sample drawn from five major stakeholder official institutions involved in transit trade in Gha...
