exporting and growth performance in Kenya using time series data. Despite trade liberalization and export promotion policies … pursued over time, Kenya's export growth has been sluggish and its contribution to economic growth is still limited …. Notwithstanding diversification efforts, exports are still strongly geared towards primary agricultural goods. Whereas the empirical …

the interplay between extractives and economic development. Just as 'the resource curse' fails as a generic explanation on … to diversify, options for pacing development, and appropriate performance measures. …

Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of …

-added ('value-added ratio') in exports consistent with the objective of achieving economic development through an export …Is the emphasis placed in trade and industry policy-making in developing countries on the share of domestic value …-oriented development strategy? This paper examines the rationale behind this policy emphasis, first by revisiting the conventional case for …

Community customs union. Trade within the East African Community is now free from import duties, and partner states have adopted … a three-band common external tariff. This paper assesses how the customs union has supported intraregional trade and … industrialization, in particular through the development of competitive smokestack-free industries. It concludes that regional …

context of preferential trade agreements for South African imports of frozen bone-in chicken. We focus first on the firm …. Restrictive trade measures such as anti-dumping, safeguards, and avian flu bans constrain imports effectively, through increasing … extensive margin with the inclusion of zero trade values and find that firms are less likely to trade with higher-tariff origins …

promoted economic diversification. However, the growth has not been uniform across regions and countries. Africa lags behind in … service exports is negligible. The expansion of services trade is constrained by various factors such as non-tariff barriers …, protectionist regulatory frameworks, and infrastructure constraints. There is significant room for service export growth, including …

: agriculture, industry, foreign trade and investment, and social development. By using a more socially grounded analytical approach … development. In the past half-century, these countries raised agricultural productivity faster than population growth and … displayed sufficient state capability to direct change towards a respectable level of industrial development. In this period …

This survey of the 2016 replenishments of three multilateral development bank soft funds and of the Global Fund for … AIDS, TB and Malaria shows that a significant re-set of the multilateral development finance system is taking place, with …, the International Development Association). 'Graduation' of countries away from eligibility for highly concessional …