African manufacturing exports. The degree of market diversification, measured by the number of export destinations, is highly … correlated with export intensity at the firm level, and both embody strong scale effects. Technological factors, such as new … vintage capital and Internet access, which improve production efficiency and lower export costs, show strong effects on the …

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 …

overall affiliate sales. Although quantitatively important, this Export-Supporting FDI (ESFDI) activity has received little … is characterized by export-supporting distribution and service activities in the foreign market while production remains …