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 …

Identifying the true determinants of export diversification is difficult as there exists no comprehensive theoretical … uncover the true long-term roots of export diversification among 43 potential determinants, and thus 2^43 potential models …. Our results suggest that only four factors are important in predicting export diversification levels: natural resource …