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In this study, we investigate the relationship between exporting and firm performance using a longer panel dataset of Ethiopian manufacturing firms for the period 1996?2009. We test two hypotheses regarding exporting: selection into exporting versus learn
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Industrial policy has attracted considerable controversy in the development context. This paper makes a case for a pragmatic and limited approach to interventions as a means of stimulating industrialization in the context of current and future challenges facing newly industrializing economies....
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Firm turnover (i.e. firm entry and exit) is a well-recognized source of sectorlevel productivity growth across … form an important component of productivity growth. …
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School-feeding is an important intervention to attract children to school and augment their learning. The benefits of …
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There is an inherent tension between implementing organizations.which have specific objectives and narrow missions and mandates.and executive organizations.which provide resources to multiple implementing organizations. Ministries of finance/planning/budg
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In this paper, we aim to analyse the learning by exporting hypothesis in the Mozambican context. Due to the presence of …
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This paper investigates the role of aid in mitigating the adverse effects of commodity export price shocks on growth in … aid towards countries with a high incidence of commodity export price shocks. …
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In this paper I empirically investigate the early international entrepreneurship of indigenous Chinese firms using data on 3,948 firms surveyed by the World Bank in 2002-03. I find important differences in the extent and motivation of early internationalization between indigenous and...
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entrepreneurship in China is significant: 65 per cent of the exporting firms start export operations within three years. Foreign …-invested firms. Thus, while business networks are significant for firms wishing to export indirectly and for older indigenous firms …
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One feature of exporting firms in Cambodia is that they are not of domestic origin but are foreign firms that export …-owned export firms …
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