reduce grain PHL in SSA over the last 30 years and from experts in the field. These experts were identified and asked to …

The recurrent global food price spikes in 2008 and 2010 rekindled interest in the use of national food grain stockpiles … support policies in the developed countries. However, large 'buffer' or 'intervention' stocks, as the grain accumulations in … practitioners, revisits the issues and evidence concerning grain stocks. It starts with an open mind concerning stocks as policy …

-the-frontier innovations, inside-the-frontier innovations, and export booms. It extends the literature by increasing country coverage and the … performance. Furthermore, the search for export booms exhibits the least amount of sectoral concentration and path … modeling of these processes in theoretical work, particularly in the search for export booms, should be of a stochastic flavor …

thick institutional architecture is in reality quite thin. This is due to a particular type of an export-oriented model …

"Feenstra and Kee study the link between export product variety and country productivity based on data from 34 … industrial and developing countries, from 1982 to 1997. They measure export product variety by the share of U.S. imports on the … productivity gains. In addition, as suggested in the literature, export product variety depends on trade costs, such as tariffs …