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Using firm-level data on manufacturing sectors in Africa, this paper addresses how domestic supply constraints and other firm characteristics explain the geographical orientation of firms' exports and the overall market diversification of African manufacturing exports. The degree of market...
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This paper examines the export performance of 99 countries over 1995-2004 to understand the relative roles of export growth through "discovery" of new products and growth during post-discovery phases of the export product cycle -- acceleration and maturation -- in existing markets and expansion...
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In this paper, the effect of proximity to multinational exporters on the creation of new export linkages (the extensive margin of trade) is debated. Using panel data from Chinese customs for 1997-2007, the capacity for Chinese domestic firms to begin exporting new varieties to new markets is...
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One of the recurrent explanations of the Arab spring is that governments were disconnected from their populations and that public policies were simply not in line with people's sentiments and expectations. This paper provides a methodology to better understand how objective conditions of...
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less on selling household assets or livestock to cope with drought. In Burkina Faso and Ghana, international remittance …
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(from Ghana) and international remittances (from African and other countries) on poverty and inequality in Ghana. To control … internal and international remittances reduce the level, depth, and severity of poverty in Ghana. However, the size of the … poverty reduction depends on the type of remittances received. In general, poverty in Ghana is reduced more by international …
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producers and consumers. In Ghana, the impact of a change in the price of rice is not ambiguous because a large share of the … comprehensive household survey, this paper provides an assessment of the potential impact of higher food prices on the poor in Ghana …, and other cereals would together lead to an increase in poverty, but that by contrast to a number of other countries, this …
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Matrix for Ghana. The paper finds that both the direct impacts of food prices and the indirect impacts of oil prices are …
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One in six children age 6-14 are engaged in labor activities in Ghana, with child employment being the leading … implement public policy of possible ways to tackle child labor in Ghana. The paper empirically assesses the effects of … child labor in Ghana. …
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Services trade constitute roughly one-third of trade on a value added basis, and much of this is concentrated in margin services (transport, logistics) linked to trade in goods. However, producer services are also part of the value added contained in traded goods. This is especially true in high...
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