productivity (TFP) of African manufacturing firms. This measure is understood to include quality in the provision of customs … TFP, and allocative efficiency. For each country the impact is evaluated based on 10 different productivity measures … doing business, firm perceptions of growth bottlenecks, and the concept of demeaned productivity (Olley and Pakes 1996). The …

integration, namely, trade volumes, export/trade patterns by product (primary and manufacturing goods), and by destination (inter …, capital accumulation and total factor productivity growth. The analysis finds causal evidence that trade integration fosters … intra-regional trade are channeled through enhanced total factor productivity growth …

export diversification in a few countries, AGOA has fallen short of the potential impetus that preferences could otherwise …

: (1) earning income (export goods in which Russia has traditionally had a comparative advantage); (2) diversification and …

to competitors and to their past export performance. Of particular importance is the extent to which their performance is … quarterly data for 2005q1-2013q1 to compute comparable indicators of export performance for 228 countries and territories. The … database, the Export Competitiveness Database, reveals interesting patterns in trade performance. Export performance, stripped …

This paper proposes a new quantitative implementation of Balassa's idea that export composition and revealed … the export composition of countries is close to a low-dimensional manifold or "Product Space" within the space of export … the structure of the trade matrix. The model uses non-linear techniques to identify the product space from the 2010 export …

firms' product scope and export sales changed after Chinese liberalization vis-a-vis Asian liberalization. The findings … for 18 percent of additional French export sales. These results are robust when accounting for foreign competition faced …

This note examines in detail Brazil?s export performance over the past 15 years, focusing not only on growth and … currency can be appointed as one of the elements behind the lower competitiveness in Brazilian exports, sluggish productivity …

This paper proposes a new quantitative implementation of Balassa's idea that export composition and revealed … the export composition of countries is close to a low-dimensional manifold or "Product Space" within the space of export … the structure of the trade matrix. The model uses non-linear techniques to identify the Product Space from the 2010 export …