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This paper examines recent changes in the structure of Argentine exports and the implications for future growth. The …-productivity goods that tend to be exported by low-income countries. The productivity content of Argentine exports has increased recently … exports more the efficiency frontier. Those products include chemicals and primary products with some degree of value added …
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This paper examines systematically the growth effects of trade integration in Sub-Saharan Africa. It complements and improves upon the empirical literature in two aspects: first, it jointly estimates the impact of different dimensions of trade integration, namely, trade volumes, export/trade...
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methodology to measure the vulnerability of a country's exports to fluctuations in the economic activity of foreign markets …. Export vulnerability depends first on the overall level of export exposure, measured as the share of exports in gross … domestic product, and second on the sensitivity of exports to fluctuations in foreign gross domestic product. The authors …
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Like many emerging economies, South Africa has identified exports as an engine for more inclusive, job-intensive growth … uses a newly developed World Bank database -- the Labor Content of Exports -- to show that the composition of South Africa …'s export growth helps to understand the weak relationship between export and employment growth. Minerals exports, which …
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clothing and the magnitude of exports from developing countries to the EU and US markets. This analysis identifies the quality …
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costs, a fairly productive labor force, and preferential access to industrial countries, Madagascar's exports of textile and … results indicate that the effects of an increase in exports of textiles for poverty reduction are felt only in urban areas …
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of the Internet boosted manufacturing exports of firms in China, even before the rise of major e-commerce platforms in …
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This paper investigates the sources of growth in manufacturing productivity in Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia and Tanzania in comparison with the case of Bangladesh. Based on the analysis of establishment census data since the mid-1990s, it finds that reallocation of market share between firms...
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Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have limited its analysis to developed countries or cross-country studies based on definitions of market concentration across nations and industries. This paper takes advantage of a...
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The reallocation of resources from low- to high-productivity firms can generate large aggregate productivity gains. The paper uses data from the Malaysian manufacturing census to measure the country's hypothetical productivity gains when moving toward the level of within-sector allocative...
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