Mauritius is an outlier in Sub-Saharan Africa for its impressive manufactured export performance based on garments since the adoption of market-oriented policies in the early 1980s. Little, however, is known about the role played by internal technological factors on the exporting behaviour of...

As tariffs fall over time, attention inevitably focuses on non-tariff measures (NTMs). Governments are increasingly imposing mandatory technical regulations on products for reasons of security, health or the environment and have facilitated the introduction of non-mandatory (voluntary) standards...