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We use a modified gravity model to estimate the relationship between trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) in the … Southern African Development Community (SADC). We find evidence of a significant causal relationship from SADC's exports to … UK or from continental Europe. In the case of FDI to SADC from the USA and UK, it is exports from SADC to these countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273486
This paper identifies the determinants of industrialization in 18 African countries, 1965 to 2018, using various … estimators and applying a battery of robustness checks. Industrialization in Africa is driven by historical legacies such as …-shape relationship between industrialization and GDP per capita is consistent with (premature) de-industrialization. Technological change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249268
This paper identifies the determinants of industrialization in 18 African countries, 1965 to 2018, using various … estimators and applying a battery of robustness checks. Industrialization in Africa is driven by historical legacies such as …-shape relationship between industrialization and GDP per capita is consistent with (premature) de-industrialization. Technological change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296787
We use a modified gravity model to estimate the relationship between trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) in the … Southern African Development Community (SADC). We find evidence of a significant causal relationship from SADC's exports to … UK or from continental Europe. In the case of FDI to SADC from the USA and UK, it is exports from SADC to these countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793551
manufacturing in the region, describe three distinct time periods of industrialization since 1990, and explain the nature of I4 … could do more to promote entrepreneurship; to diversify and grow manufacturing export markets through focused trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978455
The debate on industrial policy (IP) has been characterized by a number of contractions over the concept of industrial policy, its merits, contents and application. The purpose of this exploratory paper is to review the debate on IP. Outlining the concept and instruments of industrial policy,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280155
manufacturing in the region, describe three distinct time periods of industrialization since 1990, and explain the nature of I4 … could do more to promote entrepreneurship; to diversify and grow manufacturing export markets through focused trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005842
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is impacting on the industrialization options for Africa inter alia through … products-as-services, the sharing (collaborative) economy, and digital services and digital exports. These are markets that are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694809
Should developing countries focus on diversifying their export basket or should they instead specialize their exports … diversification results in higher GDP growth and employment. The main channel for this observation is that greater export … diversification results in a more substantial increase in exports (of between 1.28 and 7.03 per cent) than in the case of greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273435
Should developing countries focus on diversifying their export basket or should they instead specialize their exports … diversification results in higher GDP growth and employment. The main channel for this observation is that greater export … diversification results in a more substantial increase in exports (of between 1.28 and 7.03 per cent) than in the case of greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793560