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Africa's economic performance has been widely viewed with pessimism. This paper uses firm-level data for 89 countries to examine formal firm performance. Without controls, manufacturing African firms do not perform much worse than firms in other regions. But they do have structural problems,...
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Africa's economic performance has been widely viewed with pessimism. This paper uses firm-level data for 89 countries to examine formal firm performance. Without controls, manufacturing African firms do not perform much worse than firms in other regions. But they do have structural problems,...
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This paper examines China and Africa co-operation from the angle of structural transformation as a major driver of … growth and job creation. Being a bit ahead in the structural transformation process, China can provide ideas, tacit knowledge …, opportunities as well as development finances in Africa's transformation. We review critical parts of China's transformation to see …
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Many transition policies, based on neoclassical economics, failed in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and China … firm has normal management. However, many firms in the socialist as well as transitional economies are not viable, that is … management because they are in sectors that are inconsistent with their economies' comparative advantages. Under the viability …
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This paper argues that both openness and poverty in a country are endogenously determined by the country’s long-term economic development strategy. Development strategies can be broadly divided into two mutually exclusive groups: (i) the comparative advantage-defying (CAD) strategy, which...
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