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of South Africa, we construct various measures of subnational export diversity. We find that it is not only how much that … generally experienced higher economic growth rates and contributed much more to overall exports from South Africa. We also find … greater foreign direct investment in South Africa since 1996. …
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Bilateral trade of geographically distant countries is likely to be negatively affected by the distance separating them from their trading partners and positively affected by their remoteness, defined as the average weighted distance between two countries with weights reflecting the absorptive...
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export-oriented firm would locate from a port. We present empirical evidence from South Africa in support of the model. …
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This paper revisits the link between exchange rate regimes and trade in the context of Africa’s exchange rate … Africa’s experience with that of the world. Our results suggest that both currency unions and direct pegs promote bilateral … trade in Africa vis-à-vis more flexible exchange rate regimes,and that their effect is almost double for the region than …
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-country regressions covering 31 Sub-Saharan African countries suggest that growth in Africa is not simply a question of capital …
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. Inspired by first-hand evidence from West Africa, this paper argues that these units undergo the same process of …
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Tree crops have changed land tenure in Africa. Farmers have acquired more permanent, alienable rights, but have also …
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Utilizing the stochastic frontier approach, this study conducts a comparative analysis of profit efficiency and cost inefficiency of commercial banks operating in 29 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries by bank ownership (domestic bank, SSA foreign bank or non-SSA foreign bank), as well as by the...
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Africa should industrialize. Without structural change it cannot sustain recent growth. Economies with more diverse and … sophisticated industrial sectors tend to grow faster. But since 1980 Africa has deindustrialized. The paper shows that between 1975 … and 2005 the size, diversity and sophistication of industry in Africa have all declined. An industrialization strategy …
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Scholars and policy makers believe that democracy will bring prosperity through integration into the global economy via increased international trade. This study tests two theories as to why democracies might trade more. First, political freedom may be correlated with economic freedom, thus...
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