Regional infrastructure for trade facilitation: impact on growth and poverty reduction - Policy summary

This paper summarises the impact and risks of RITF in terms of growth and poverty reduction as well as the poverty implications around three major findings namely:

• RITF encourages economic activity around the border, including for most informal traders

• RITF helps firms in African countries connect to modern value chains and in particular global value chains

• RITF has long-lasting effects through productivity of firms.