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protection which previously limited competition. Despite these reforms, African manufacturing firms remain unsuccessful … panel data set of firms in Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania that spans a period of five years. We find that the main determinant of …
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data set from an annual census of Ethiopian manufacturing, rarely available in the sub-Saharan Africa. We exploited its …
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thesis is the transition of the manufacturing industry in the federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg. After reunification … survey for the years from 1991 to 2000.The thesis pays special attention to the role of exports for the development of plants …. German economic policy promotes firms in their step on foreign markets, because exports are expected to stimulate the …
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paths cannot be confirmed.It is also shown that the american civil war had rather less influence on manufacturing efficiency …
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In the light of rapid development of technology/knowledge intensive firms arising from the emerging economy of China in recent time, this paper is aimed at developing an analytical framework, based on the institutional theory and resource-based view, to evaluate the drivers and antecedents of...
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Australian studies have focused on different dimensions of intra industry trade (IIT) between the manufacturing sector … manufacturing sector. The sophisticated capital goods produced and the capital intensive nature of motor vehicle production have …&D expenditure have favoured the motor vehicle industry's production and exports at the expense of the TCF industry, thereby …
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This paper summarizes studies of carbon (C) mitigation potential and costs of about 40 forestry options in seven developing countries. Each study uses the same methodological approach - Comprehensive Mitigation Assessment Process (COMAP) - to estimate the above parameters between 2000 and 2030....
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the first element. Data from the 1973 National Demographic Survey of Tanzania (NDS) are used to investigate the role of …
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In this paper, we use a three-period panel of Tanzanian households to explore the determinants of earnings and earnings growth from 2004 to 2006. In doing so, we draw particular attention to the role of education and to the importance of heterogeneity between more and less formal occupations....
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