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Making the Most of Demographic Change in Southern Africa
Ahmed, S. Amer - 2017
The countries of the Southern African Customs Union have relatively diverse demographic and economic starting points. These economies have the potential to realize demographic dividends and experience an acceleration in their income per capita growth and poverty reduction progress through...
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Poverty and Shared Prosperity Implications of Deep Integration in Eastern and Southern Africa
Balistreri, Edward J. - 2017
Evidence indicates that trade costs are a much more substantial barrier to trade than tariffs are, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper decomposes trade costs into: (i) trade facilitation, (ii) non-tariff barriers, and (iii) the costs of business services. The paper assesses the poverty...
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Mines, Migration and Hiv/Aids in Southern Africa
Corno, Lucia - 2017
Swaziland and Lesotho have the highest HIV prevalence in the world. They also share another distinct feature: during the last century, they sent a large numbers of migrant workers to South African mines. This paper examines whether participation in mining in a bordering country affects HIV...
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Microeconomic Consequences and Macroeconomic Causes of Foreign Direct Investment in Southern African Economies
Lederman, Daniel - 2017
The causes and consequences of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries remains a subject of debate among researchers and policymakers alike. The authors use international data and a new micro-data set of firms in thirteen Southern African Developing Countries (SADCs) to...
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International Benchmarking of Infrastructure Performance in the Southern African Customs Union Countries
Bogetic, Zeljko - 2016
The paper provides a first, systematic benchmarking of infrastructure performance in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) countries (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Swaziland) in four major sectors-electricity, water and sanitation, information and communication technology,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748112
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Second Best? Investment Climate and Performance in Africa's Special Economic Zones
Farole, Thomas - 2017
industrialization, diversification, and trade integration in many countries, particularly in East Asia. However, in the African context …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976338
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GVC Participation and Deep Integration in Brazil
Hollweg, Claire Honore - 2018
The production of export goods has become increasingly unbundled, and countries positioning to become more integrated in the global economy are increasingly looking toward global value chains. This paper uses the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development/World Trade Organization's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908041
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Does Premature Deindustrialization Matter? The Role of Manufacturing Versus Services in Development
Nayyar, Gaurav - 2018
The shares of manufacturing in value added and employment across a range of developing economies peaked at lower levels of per capita income compared with their high-income, early-industrializer precursors. Based on the statistical analysis of input-output tables and firm-level data, the paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910837
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Policies, Prices, and Poverty : The Sugar, Vegetable Oil, and Flour Industries in Senegal
Mbaye, Ahmadou Aly - 2017
Like many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Senegal has struggled to develop its industrial sector in the face of import competition. For basic food products, there is an implicit trade-off between the objectives of maintaining employment and lowering the cost of living, both of which figure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971668
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Urbanization and the Geography of Development
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2017
herald cities with their industrial bases as "engines of growth," does industrialization in fact drive urbanization? While … industrialization correlate only weakly with changes in urbanization. This suggests that policy and institutional factors may also … influence the urbanization process. In fact, the relationship between industrialization and urbanization is absent in Sub …
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