For the latter, the second year of the crisis appears to be even more damaging for the economy with a growth rate of 3.8 per cent. The hypothesis of early rebound for commodity prices as observed in most markets while other linking variables - export, FDI, aid, and remittances - are stagnating, exacerbate the adverse effects of the crisis. Thus, we start by decomposing their GDP components into final consumption, investment and net exports, and analyze their respective contributions to the economy slowdown consecutive to the global economic crisis. Indeed, the trade deficits in Burkina Faso and in Ghana, respectively 15 per cent and 36 per cent of GDP in 2008 (Annex I, Table 2), are reduced due to a significant decrease in import costs (Figure 16).