Analysis of the Main Indicators of International Trade from 2012 to 2020: The Case of Mali

Analyse des principaux indicateurs du commerce international entre de 2012 à 2020: Cas du Mali

Amidou Ballo, Ibrahima Kane and Daman-Guilé Diawara ()
Additional contact information
Amidou Ballo: Université des sciences sociales et de gestion de Bamako - USSGB - Université des sciences sociales et de gestion de Bamako
Ibrahima Kane: Université des sciences sociales et de gestion de Bamako - USSGB - Université des sciences sociales et de gestion de Bamako
Daman-Guilé Diawara: Université des sciences sociales et de gestion de Bamako - USSGB - Université des sciences sociales et de gestion de Bamako

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: This document aims to analyze the main indicators of international trade in Mali. The data covers the period from 2012 to 2020. The methodological approach used is based on causality techniques. We identified five relevant topics (exports, imports, trade balance, degree of openness, coverage rate), with annual frequency and measurements in FCFA and percentages to understand the evolution of Mali's foreign trade. To build our database, we analyzed documents related to trade, notably from INSTAT, BCEAO, and UNCTAD. We identify variables that cover various aspects of international trade (for example, export and import data). The results reveal that between 2012 and 2020, exports increased overall by 55.94%. During the same period, imports experienced a global increase of 24.33%, and GDP rose by 58.25%. From 2012 to 2019, the coverage rate was below 100, indicating a trade deficit. This could be attributed to the price levels of manufactured goods, transportation costs, and other services, as well as the prices of exports of primary products such as gold, cotton fiber, and livestock, or the low share of manufactured products in total exports. In 2020, the trade balance turned positive, reaching 290,106 million FCFA. This change in the trade balance can be explained by the improvement in the trade balance due to the health crisis of 2019, or COVID-19, which led to a decrease in imports of manufactured goods and an increase in the value of raw material exports.

Keywords: Exportation Importation Commerce international Balance commerciale Taux d'ouverture export import international trade trade balance openness rate; Exportation; Importation; Commerce international; Balance commerciale; Taux d'ouverture export; import; international trade; trade balance; openness rate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-05-23
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://hal.science/hal-05082664v1
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Published in Revue Internationale de la Recherche Scientifique, A paraître, 3 (3), ⟨10.5281/zenodo.15496241⟩

Downloads: (external link)
https://hal.science/hal-05082664v1/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05082664

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15496241

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().