driven mostly by global commodity prices. In order to better understand the determinants of export success in Africa we …

This paper explores whether one of the most important U.S. policies towards Africa of the past few decades achieved its … the implications of these findings for aggregate export volumes …

Exporters differ considerably in terms of export-market participation over time and employment size. But this marked … experience at other exporters. We show that expected export status, predicted with current destination-country trade instruments … reduced market penetration at the firm losing the worker. This evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that expected export …

-existent, under-developed or emerging regulatory oversight, notably Africa. This paper assesses the quality of 1470 antibiotic and … tuberculosis drug samples that claim to be made in India and were sold in Africa, India, and five mid-income non-African countries … distribution of these substandard products is not random: they are more likely to be found as unregistered products in Africa than …

This paper examines the impact of tax-based export promotion on exchange rates and patterns of trade. The threatened … important effects of U.S. export promotion policies …

tax exemption for export profits (available by routing exports through Foreign Sales Corporations), and the allocation of … some export profits to foreign source income for purposes of U.S. taxation. The analysis highlights three important aspects ….S. export incentives. Correctly measured, total export benefits provided through the income tax are equivalent to a one percent …

This paper uses regression analysis to study the causes and impacts of the Export Enhancement Program for wheat. We … find that the overwhelming causes of the EEP, faltering export markets and swelling government stocks are primarily … find that what had been a fairly robust relationship between export shares, exchange rates, and loan rates broke down after …