Should developing countries focus on diversifying their export basket or should they instead specialize their exports … on export diversification and specialization, by investigating the extent of export diversification and specialization in …) model to investigate the economy-wide impacts of greater export diversification versus greater export specialization. We …

Should developing countries focus on diversifying their export basket or should they instead specialize their exports … on export diversification and specialization, by investigating the extent of export diversification and specialization in …) model to investigate the economy-wide impacts of greater export diversification versus greater export specialization. We …

This paper provides empirical evidence on the relationship between exports, and in particular export diversity, and … regional growth in a developing country context. Using export data for 19 sectors from 354 subnational (magisterial) districts … of South Africa, we construct various measures of subnational export diversity. We find that it is not only how much that …

could do more to promote entrepreneurship; to diversify and grow manufacturing export markets through focused trade …