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Beyond Tariffs and Quotas : Why Don't African Manufacturers Export More?
Clarke, George R.G. - 2012
There has been much concern about Africa's recent export performance. Even though tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade have been falling, Africa's share of world exports has declined and most African countries remain highly dependent on a narrow range of primary commodities for export...
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Export Surges : The Power of a Competitive Currency
Freund, Caroline; Pierola, Martha Denisse - 2012
How can countries stimulate and sustain strong export growth? To answer this question, the authors examine 92 episodes of export surges, defined as significant increases in manufacturing export growth that are sustained for at least seven years. They find that export surges in developing...
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Trade and Innovation in Services : Evidence from a Developing Economy
Iacovone, Leonardo; Mattoo, Aaditya; Zahler, Andr??s - 2013
Studies on innovation and international trade have traditionally focused on manufacturing because neither was seen as important for services. Moreover, the few existing studies on services focus only on industrial countries, although in many developing countries services are already the largest...
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Demand Growth versus Market Share Gains : Decomposing World Manufacturing Import Growth
Aksoy, M. Ataman; Ng, Francis - 2013
This paper decomposes manufacturing import growth rates in a selected set of large industrial and developing countries (five industrial and eight developing) and measures the relative contributions of domestic demand and market share changes for two separate periods 1991/92 - 2001/02 and 2001/02...
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Markups, Returns to Scale, and Productivity : A Case Study of Singapore's Manufacturing Sector
Kee, Hiau Looi - 2013
economic development of Singapore. Properly accounting for market power and returns to scale technology, the estimated average … manufacturing sector of Singapore. Based on Young's results, Krugman (1994) claimed that there was no East Asia miracle as all the … economic growth in Singapore could be attributed to its capital accumulation in the past three decades. Citing evidence on …
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Market Access, Supplier Access, and Africa's Manufactured Exports : An Analysis of the Role of Geography and Institutions
Elbadawi, Ibrahim; Mengistae, Taye; Zeufack, Albert - 2012
In a large cross-country sample of manufacturing establishments drawn from 188 cities, average exports per establishment are smaller for African firms than for businesses in other regions. The authors show that this is mainly because, on average, African firms face more adverse economic...
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Export Liberalization, Job Creation and the Skill Premium : Evidence from the U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement
Fukase, Emiko - 2013
This paper explores how the expansion of labor-intensive manufacturing exports resulting from the United States-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement in 2001 translated into wages of skilled and unskilled workers and the skill premium in Vietnam through the channel of labor demand. In order to...
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Export Superstars
Freund, Caroline; Pierola, Martha Denisse - 2013
This paper shows that the top 1 percent of exporters critically shape trade patterns, using firm-level data from 32 countries. In particular, variation in average firm size (the intensive margin) explains over two thirds of the variation in the sector distribution of exports across countries,...
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Singapore as an Innovative City in East Asia : An Explorative Study of the Perspectives of Innovative Industries
Wong, Poh Kam; Ho, Yuen Ping; Singh, Annette - 2012
The city-state of Singapore has achieved rapid economic development in the past by its positioning as an efficient … business hub in Asia. To remain competitive in the global knowledge economy, however, Singapore needs to move beyond efficiency … by developing a strong "innovative" edge as well. This paper examines the challenges that Singapore faces in seeking to …
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From Efficiency-Driven to Innovation-Driven Economic Growth : Perspectives from Singapore
Tan, Kim-Song; Phang, Sock-Yong - 2012
This paper looks at Singapore's efforts to transform the economic growth base from one that is predominantly efficiency … time, and discusses the effectiveness of the government-led, strategic supply-push approach in propelling Singapore onto an …) and asks how Singapore's existing strength in efficiency infrastructure may give it a first mover advantage in attracting …
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