percent, with regions such as Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia and Pacific seeing greater potential gains. The increase in … foreign direct investment can exert a positive effect on GDP, trade, and employment growth, especially for lower …

Does "infant industry" preferential access durably boost export performance? This paper exploits significant trade … Central and Western Africa. Firm-level customs data for selected countries reveal that even in East Africa, the recent export … constructed trade and tariff data at the country-product-year level (1992-2017). The analysis finds that the AGOA boosted African …

we document, two patterns stand out. First, the level of GVC engagement of most countries in sub-Saharan Africa is rather …