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The optimal distance to port for exporting firms

Gries, Thomas (contributor); Naudé, Wim (contributor); … - 2008

Success in international trade depends, amongst other things, on distance from markets. Most new economic geography models focus on the distance between countries. In contrast much less theorizing and empirical analysis have focused on how distances within a country for instance due to the...

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Measuring the vulnerability of subnational regions

Naudé, Wim (contributor); McGillivray, Mark (contributor); … - 2008

A small but growing literature has been concerned about the economic (and environmental) vulnerability on the level of countries. Less attention is paid to the economic vulnerability of different regions within countries. By focusing on the vulnerability of subnational regions, our paper...

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Export diversification and specialization in South Africa : extent and impact

Naudé, Wim (contributor); Rossouw, Riaan (contributor) - 2008

diversification results in higher GDP growth and employment. The main channel for this observation is that greater export …

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Export diversity and regional growth : empirical evidence from South Africa

Matthee, Marianne (contributor); Naudé, Wim (contributor) - 2007

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The determinants of regional manufactured exports from a developing country

Matthee, Marianne (contributor); Naudé, Wim (contributor) - 2007

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The geographical location of manufacturing exporters in South Africa

Naudé, Wim (contributor); Matthee, Marianne (contributor) - 2007

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Out with the sleaze, in with the ease : insufficient for entrepreneurial development?

Naudé, Wim (contributor) - 2009

matters for economic growth. Using panel data on 60 countries spanning the period 2003-07 this paper establishes that (i …) opportunitymotivated entrepreneurship (as opposed to necessity-motivated entrepreneurship) drives economic growth; (ii) governance and the … economic growth. This implies that better governance and lower start-up costs, widely advocated as measures to promote …

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