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Options for Export Diversification and Faster Export Growth in Ghana
Chandra, Vandana; Osorio-Rodarte, Israel - 2013
This paper discusses how Ghana’s path to a middle income status does not have to be paved with only manufactured products. There are multiple paths and processed natural resources-based products are not necessarily a curse, and if Ghana wants and it builds the requisite capacity, it can turn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014157006
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Options for Export Diversification and Faster Export Growth in Ghana
Chandra, Vandana; Osorio Rodarte, Israel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper discusses how Ghana’s path to a middle income status does not have to be paved with only manufactured products. There are multiple paths and processed natural resources-based products are not necessarily a curse, and if Ghana wants and it builds the requisite capacity, it can turn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472219
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Commodity Export Diversification in Rwanda - Many Export Discoveries with Little Scaling-Up
Chandra, Vandana; Li, Ying; Osorio Rodarte, Israel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
increased diversification of exports is linked to increased export and GDP growth. Yet, commodity exports in Rwanda are … generate employment and meet the Government of Rwanda´s targets for poverty reduction. This chapter presents evidence that … concentrated in a few commodities. The relationship between export diversification and export growth in SSA confirms that for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472237
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Options for Income-Enhancing Diversification in Burkina Faso
Chandra, Vandana - 2013
One of the objectives of this CEM was to identify the most promising products and conduct competitiveness diagnostic. The products list is summarized in Table 1 below. Competitiveness, in this report, is seen as a combination of productivity and costs, and the second section of the CEM presents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080773
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Designing Comprehensive Cluster Policies in Developing Countries: Perspectives for Morocco
Benner, Maximilian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Cluster policy has arrived at the mainstream of economic policy since the early 1990. In many developing countries including those on the African continent, clusters on the regional and local levels have been promoted. The North African countries offer an interesting case because of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109788
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Options for Income-Enhancing Diversification in Burkina Faso
Chandra, Vandana; Osorio Rodarte, Israel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
One of the objectives of this CEM was to identify the most promising products and conduct competitiveness diagnostic. The products list is summarized in Table 1 below. Competitiveness, in this report, is seen as a combination of productivity and costs, and the second section of the CEM presents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583586
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Strategic Decision-Making: Adoption of Agricultural Technologies and Risk in a Peasant Economy
Mariam, Yohannes; Galaty, John; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993
Descriptive and logit analysis were employed to investigate the impact of social, economic and technical factors on decisions to adopt new agricultural technologies in the Ada and Selale districts of Ethiopia. Peasants follow sequential adoption of technologies. In both study areas, priority is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619927
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Théorie de politique industrielle et développement économique du maroc
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper proposes a model of theoritical reflection on the following fact: the Moroccan industrial economy is not competitive and technological gap is wide between local industries and foreign firms. This observation leads us to organize this debate by offering a rigorous theoretical framework...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112625
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The new kid in the forest: the impact of China's resource demand on Gabon's tropical timber value chain
Terheggen, Anne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This dissertation is anchored in the disruptive impact of China’s resource-based economic expansion over the last two decades. Whilst the country’s economic growth follows traditional patterns of development, the size of China’s population challenges the small-country assumption inherent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257896
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Learning to Innovate vs. Learning to Manufacture: Towards an Alternative Technology Strategy
Tyabji, Nasir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
India's diversified and sophisticated manufacturing base contrasts strongly with the near complete absence of visible innovative capabilities. This article examines the Indian "National System of Innovation" in order to address the question of the evident distinction between the ability to make...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259873