[ Portée socio-économique des échanges frontaliers dans le plateau au sud-est du Bénin ]
Volume 36, Issue 3, June 2022, Pages 776–789
Seidou Abdel Hack1, Zannou Sandé2, Vigninou Toussaint3, and Brice TENTE4
1 Laboratoire d’Etudes des Dynamiques Urbaines et Régionales (LEDUR), Département de Géographie et Aménagement du Territoire (DGAT), Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Benin
2 Laboratoire de l’Aménagement du Territoire, de l’Environnement et de Développement Durable (LATEDD), Benin
3 Laboratoire d’Etudes des Dynamiques Urbaines et Régionales (LEDUR), Département de Géographie et Aménagement du Territoire (DGAT), Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Benin
4 Laboratoire de Biogéographie et d’Expertise Environnementale (LABEE), Université d’Abomey-Calavi, BP : 677 Abomey-Calavi, Benin
Original language: French
Copyright © 2022 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The cross-border spaces of the districts of the Plateau are structured by complex activities, territories that are difficult to define but places that contain significant potential and opportunities for development between neighboring States. The objective was to assess the contribution of cross-border exchanges to the local development of the five communes of the Plateau. The quantitative data used concern, among other things, the collection rates of taxes issued in the Plateau department from 2015 to 2019 as well as the monthly income of cross-border trade actors. A total of 390 households were surveyed and 51 resource persons were interviewed during the study. The results obtained reveal that more than half of the players in the trade in manufactured products (55.90%) make a daily profit of at least 50,000 FCFA; (65.13%) of the traders in petroleum products surveyed earn more than 50,000 FCFA; among foreign exchange traders, 80.77% of them derive at least a profit of 5,000 FCFA from the daily execution of their foreign exchange activity. On the social side, 20.51% of the players surveyed said that this activity allows them to meet their basic needs. These points of expenditure are followed by other destinations of benefits such as schooling (15.38%), the purchase of means of transport (13.08%), the construction of housing on a rental or individual basis (12. 31%), ceremonies (11.54%) and savings in banks and/or micro-finance institutions (7.44%). It also contributes to the revenue of the local community through the taxes paid by the actors.
Author Keywords: Plateau Department, cross-border exchanges, actors, local dévelopment.
Volume 36, Issue 3, June 2022, Pages 776–789
Seidou Abdel Hack1, Zannou Sandé2, Vigninou Toussaint3, and Brice TENTE4
1 Laboratoire d’Etudes des Dynamiques Urbaines et Régionales (LEDUR), Département de Géographie et Aménagement du Territoire (DGAT), Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Benin
2 Laboratoire de l’Aménagement du Territoire, de l’Environnement et de Développement Durable (LATEDD), Benin
3 Laboratoire d’Etudes des Dynamiques Urbaines et Régionales (LEDUR), Département de Géographie et Aménagement du Territoire (DGAT), Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Benin
4 Laboratoire de Biogéographie et d’Expertise Environnementale (LABEE), Université d’Abomey-Calavi, BP : 677 Abomey-Calavi, Benin
Original language: French
Copyright © 2022 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The cross-border spaces of the districts of the Plateau are structured by complex activities, territories that are difficult to define but places that contain significant potential and opportunities for development between neighboring States. The objective was to assess the contribution of cross-border exchanges to the local development of the five communes of the Plateau. The quantitative data used concern, among other things, the collection rates of taxes issued in the Plateau department from 2015 to 2019 as well as the monthly income of cross-border trade actors. A total of 390 households were surveyed and 51 resource persons were interviewed during the study. The results obtained reveal that more than half of the players in the trade in manufactured products (55.90%) make a daily profit of at least 50,000 FCFA; (65.13%) of the traders in petroleum products surveyed earn more than 50,000 FCFA; among foreign exchange traders, 80.77% of them derive at least a profit of 5,000 FCFA from the daily execution of their foreign exchange activity. On the social side, 20.51% of the players surveyed said that this activity allows them to meet their basic needs. These points of expenditure are followed by other destinations of benefits such as schooling (15.38%), the purchase of means of transport (13.08%), the construction of housing on a rental or individual basis (12. 31%), ceremonies (11.54%) and savings in banks and/or micro-finance institutions (7.44%). It also contributes to the revenue of the local community through the taxes paid by the actors.
Author Keywords: Plateau Department, cross-border exchanges, actors, local dévelopment.
Abstract: (french)
Les espaces transfrontaliers des communes du Plateau sont structurés par des activités complexes, des territoires difficilement limités mais des lieux qui renferment d’importantes potentialités et d’opportunités de développement entre les Etats voisins. L’objectif visé a été d’évaluer la contribution des échanges transfrontaliers au développement local des cinq communes du Plateau. Les données quantitatives utilisées concernent entre autres les taux de recouvrement des taxes émises dans le département du Plateau de 2015 à 2019 ainsi que les revenus mensuels des acteurs du commerce transfrontalier. Au total, 390 ménages ont été enquêtés et 51 personnes ressources ont été interviewées lors de l’étude. Les résultats obtenus révèlent que plus de la moitié des acteurs du commerce des produits manufacturés (55,90 %) fait un bénéfice journalier d’au moins 50.000 FCFA; (65,13 %) des commerçants de produits pétroliers enquêtés gagnent quotidiennement plus de 50.000 FCFA; chez les cambistes, 80,77 % d’eux tirent au moins un bénéfice de 5.000 FCFA de l’exécution quotidienne de leur activité de change. Du coté social, 20,51 % des acteurs enquêtés ont affirmé que cette activité leur permet d’assurer leurs besoins vitaux. Ces points de dépenses sont suivis d’autres destinations de bénéfices que sont la scolarisation (15,38 %), l’achat des moyens de déplacement (13,08 %), la construction d’habitation à titre locatif ou individuel (12,31 %), les cérémonies (11,54 %) et l’épargne dans les banques et/ou les institutions de micro-finance (7,44 %). Il contribue également aux recettes de la collectivité locale à travers les taxes payées par les acteurs.
Author Keywords: Communes du Plateau, échanges transfrontaliers, acteurs, développement local.
How to Cite this Article
Seidou Abdel Hack, Zannou Sandé, Vigninou Toussaint, and Brice TENTE, “Socio-économique impact of border trade in the south-east plateau of Benin,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 776–789, June 2022.
