We examine the effects of transit, documentation, and ports and customs delays on Africa’s exports. We find that … ; export times ; transit delays ; gravity models …

driven mostly by global commodity prices. In order to better understand the determinants of export success in Africa we …

explained by Africa's low-income business environment and, once properly benchmarked, Africa's performance in terms of exporter … and should help to reduce the rate of failure of African export ventures through a mixture of improvements in the business … export entrepreneurship through traditional policy prescriptions such as reducing transportation costs, facilitating trade …

Using panel data regressions, this paper analyzes the effect of imperfections in the formal export credit and insurance … market on trade growth in the regions of Africa and Asia. An exclusive comparison of trade performance of the two regions … with respect to export credit and insurance is novel in the literature. I employ Berne Union data on export credit …

Central and Western Africa. Firm-level customs data for selected countries reveal that even in East Africa, the recent export …Does "infant industry" preferential access durably boost export performance? This paper exploits significant trade … three late-bloomers in East Africa offsetting the boom-bust pattern in Southern Africa and the never-significant response in …

East Africa the recent export growth was driven by new entrants rather than incumbent firms whose competitiveness might …Does "infant industry" preferential access durably boost export performance? This paper exploits significant trade …-Fiber Arrangement (MFA) in 2005 is used to assess whether apparel export expansions survived the erosion of preferences. To find a …