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Understanding the geographical distribution of stunting in Tanzania : a geospatial analysis of the 2015-16 demographic and health survey
Josepha, George; Gething, Peter W.; Bhatt, Samir; … - 2019
Tanzania is home to the third highest population of stunted children in Sub-Saharan Africa, with about 2.7 million … increasing their likelihood of being poor when they grow up. To reduce stunting, the Government of Tanzania and development … model validation exercises are employed to develop high-resolution maps of stunting in Tanzania at 1x1-kilometer spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002669
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The initial and potential impact of preferential access to the U.S. market under the African growth and opportunity act
Brenton, Paul; Ikezuki, Takako - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002019691
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Open economies work better! : Did Africa's protectionist policies cause its marginalization in world trade?
Ng, Francis; Yeats, Alexander J. - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000943403
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Are trade preferences a Panacea? : the African Growth and Opportunity Act and African exports
Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Maemir, Hibret; Mattoo, Aaditya; … - 2019
three late-bloomers in East Africa offsetting the boom-bust pattern in Southern Africa and the never-significant response in … Central and Western Africa. Firm-level customs data for selected countries reveal that even in East Africa, the recent export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012007994
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Revisiting the trade impact of the African Growth and Opportunity Act : a synthetic control approach
Kassa, Woubet; Coulibaly, Souleymane - 2019
This study examines the impact of the African Growth and Opportunity Act using the synthetic control method, a quasi-experimental approach. The novelty in the approach is that it addresses problems of estimation that are prevalent in nonexperimental methods used to analyze the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114106
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Jobs in global value chains : new evidence for four African countries in international perspective
Pahl, Stefan; Timmer, Marcel; Gouma, Reitze; Woltjer, … - 2019
What is the potential for job growth in Africa under participation in global value chains (GVCs)? In this study the …, Senegal and South Africa, compared to developments in some other low- and middle-income countries in the world. The four …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113815
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Africa in manufacturing global value chains : cross-country patterns in the dynamics of linkages
Abreha, Kaleb; Lartey, Emmanuel; Mengistae, Taye; … - 2020
Africa's linkages in manufacturing global value chains are reasonably high compared with other developing regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390470
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Services globalization in an age of insecurity : rethinking trade cooperation
Mattoo, Aaditya - 2018
Decades of services trade negotiations have produced a plethora of rules and commitments but limited real liberalization. One reason is a form of "negotiating tunnel vision," which has led to a focus on reciprocal market opening rather than on creating the regulatory preconditions for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011929406
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Policy uncertainty, trade, and global value chains : some facts, many questions
Constantinescu, Cristina; Mattoo, Aaditya; Ruta, Michele - 2019
This paper attempts to quantify the impact of economic policy uncertainty on overall trade and trade linked to global value chains. Using new data on policy uncertainty for 18 countries and 24 years, it finds a statistically significant negative impact of policy uncertainty on overall trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167789
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Small state regional cooperation, South-South and South-North migration, and international trade
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008661788