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their peers. This means that if Sub-Saharan African export prices were to increase, their US market share would suffer …
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, protectionist regulatory frameworks, and infrastructure constraints. There is significant room for service export growth, including …
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Tunisian manufacturing firms from 2004 to 2006. In particular, we examine whether more productive firms self-select into export … exporting firms from others. The results suggest that fully exporting firms self-select more often into export markets and … for learning by exporting. Moreover, the scope for learning might also be influenced by export destination, as in the case …
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export transactions. South African firm-level exporting is similar to the stylized facts of firm-level exporting found … exported, but also in terms of the number of products and destinations they export too. These in turn are related to firm …
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entering into the export market. We find evidence in support of both self-selection and learning by exporting. …
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associated with the types of firms which participate in the export market. …
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This study sought to examine the main constraints to manufacturing export competitiveness in Tanzania. Using panel data … manufacturing export competitiveness. Specifically, the results revealed that foreign direct investment and tariffs have a negative … and significant effect on export competitiveness in Tanzania, while infrastructure, total investment, labour productivity …
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Estimating the impact of HIV/AIDS epidemic on economic growth is challenging because of endogeneity concerns. In this paper, we use novel data on male circumcision and distance from the first HIV outbreak as instrumental variables for the HIV/AIDS epidemic in 241 regions across 25 countries in...
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We consider economic development of sub-Saharan Africa from the perspective of slow convergence of productivity, both across sectors and firms within sectors. Why have 'productivity enclaves', islands of high productivity in a sea of smaller low-productivity firms, not diffused more rapidly? We...
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The distinct features of inclusive growth within the context of sub-Saharan Africa are identified. The anatomy of growth is analysed by exploring the interrelationship among growth, inequality, and poverty. The present growth spell appears to have been relatively inclusive. The recent structural...
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