Smuggling Of Oil Products In The DRC: Capturing Determinants By The Maximum Likelihood Method Of The Variables

LUBENDO LELO PIERROT GOMEZ

Abstract


Understanding the determinants of smuggling in the Democratic Republic of Congo is a crucial task, but one of paramount importance for better understanding the informality of cross-border trade in petroleum products. As such, while the omnipresence of trade transactions between the DRC and Angola has existed since then, the establishment of border lines in Africa has given a different impression, as populations that were once united are arbitrarily separated, giving rise to the existence of cross-border populations. This is one of the explanatory factors for the informality of trade transactions between the two countries.

Data manipulation using the Maximum Likelihood Method of variables made it possible to capture the determinants of petroleum product smuggling, grouped into three categories, including sociodemographic, sociocultural, and economic determinants. Certainly, in addition to sociodemographic factors, certain sociohistorical and geographical factors are often put forward by various researchers to explain the recurrence of informal cross-border trade transactions in Africa.


Keywords


Smuggling, cross-border trade, petroleum products, informality, Democratic Republic of Congo.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.52155/ijpsat.v53.2.7582

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