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Aid, structural change and the private sector in Africa
Page, John M. - 2012
This paper argues that official development assistance (foreign aid) is partly responsible for the lack of structural change in Africa. Africa's development partners have devoted too few resources and too little attention to two critical constraints to private investment, infrastructure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009501871
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Is small beautiful? : small Enterprise, aid and employment in Africa
Page, John M.; Söderbom, Måns - 2012
Aid providers frequently link supporting small firms to job creation. Small firms create about half of new jobs in Africa, but they also have higher failure rates. Ignoring firm exit exaggerates net employment growth. Using panel data for Ethiopia, we find that small and large enterprises create...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009667951
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Variation in structural change around the world, 1985-2015 : patterns, causes, and implications
Wood, Adrian - 2017
During 1985-2015, globalization intensified the factor-endowment-related pattern of sectoral specialization. In skill-abundant developed countries, manufacturing became more skill-intensive. In land-scarce developing East Asia, labour-intensive manufacturing expanded, especially in China. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011599307
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Six development paths in Southeast Asia : three plus three
Montes, Manuel F. - 2018
development. In the past half-century, these countries raised agricultural productivity faster than population growth and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894395
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Regional opportunities in East Africa
Karingi, Stephen N.; Pesce, Ottavia; Sommer, Lily - 2016
Significant progress has been made by the East African Community partner states in implementing the East African 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573947
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Development of the animal feed to poultry value chain across Botswana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe
Ncube, Phumzile; Roberts, Simon; Zengeni, Tatenda - 2016
The animal feed to poultry value chain in the southern African region has seen rapid demand growth owing to increases in urbanization. This growth has been accompanied by the increase in co-ordinated investments by large, predominantly South African, firms across the region. We examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431788
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Special economic zones in Southern Africa : white elephants or latent drivers of growth and employment? : the case of Zambia and South Africa
Phiri, Mwanda; Manchishi, Shimukunku - 2020
The successful use of special economic zones as economic tools for export-led industrial development in East Asia propelled a wave of similar initiatives across Africa. In Southern Africa, Zambia and South Africa instituted special economic zones in their respective legal and institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012320977
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Development as diffusion : manufacturing productivity and sub-Saharan Africa's missing middle
Gelb, Alan; Meyer, Christian J.; Ramachandran, Vijaya - 2014
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 summarize and analyse three sets of factors: First, the poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010242043
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Exporting and productivity : the role of ownership and innovation in the case of Vietnam
Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Tarp, Finn; Nguyen Thi Tue Anh - 2014
In this paper, we investigate the relationship between exporting and productivity in the case of Vietnam using an … extensive firm level panel dataset for the period 2005-11. We separate out productivity effects of exporting due to self … productivity in foreign-owned firms and private domestic firms separately and find the former benefit more from exporting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337678
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Market constraints, misallocation, and productivity in Viet Nam agriculture
Brandt, Loren; Ayerst, Stephen; Restuccia, Diego - 2018
misallocation in agriculture during the period between 2006 and 2016. Despite rapid growth in agricultural productivity and a … productivity over time. Our analysis also reveals important differences between the north and south regions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913225