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"Recent developments in trade theory, especially research on multi-product firms, have not been matched by similar progress on the empirical front. This paper aims to fill this gap by presenting a novel set of stylized facts on firm-product dynamics observed during an export boom. This exercise...
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"Recent research highlights the relationship between economic development and productive diversification, which may be … hindered by market failures. After identifying stages of diversification in disaggregated export data, the authors develop a … introduction of new export products, (2) export diversification measured by an index of export-revenue concentration, and (3) on …
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Guinea-Bissau is highly dependent on international trade even when compared to other nations of its size and income level. However, it is equally clear that the country could derive far more benefit from its international trade opportunities than it does at the present time. This study examines...
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evaluating the country's potential for diversification and innovation as it seeks to lead the country to emerging market status …, including through diversification and innovation. The CEM contains four main chapters, each providing theoretical or empirical … constraints in the cotton and transit trade sectors; c) diversification and innovation potential; and d) political economy of …
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Azerbaijan's oil and gas boom presents a rare opportunity to accelerate improvements in the quality of life of all its citizens. Its per capita income is $5,100 in 2008, up nearly 400 percent from 2004 in current USD terms; it could potentially exceed $6,500 by 2013 and higher beyond that....
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A small open economy, Benin has seen growth that is above average for the region. The volatility of high growth spells combined with low productivity growth has translated into limited gains in income per capita. Following its transition from low-income country to lower middle income country...
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. Economic diversification is a key component of that strategy. The country economic memorandum (CEM) report discusses how the … emergence of oil and mineral production can contribute to Uganda's effort to promote economic diversification as a means to … a development and diversification strategy, which the Ugandan government may wish to consider in the design of its …
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In 1992, the Government of Mauritania embarked on a series of macroeconomic and structural reforms that have stimulated sustained economic growth, stabilized public finances, and reduced the state's role in the economy and increased private sector activity. These positive developments,...
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In October 1991 Zambia moved to a multiparty democratic system. In the following years, the government implemented a number of policy and structural reforms, liberalizing exchange and interest rates, simplifying the tariff structure, and removing quantitative restrictions on trade, privatizing...
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