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Regional integration in Africa : challenges and prospects

De Melo, Jaime; Tsikata, Yvonne M. - 2014

Political motives, geography, and the uneven distribution of gains trumped the traditional efficiency gains across Africa's Regional Economic Communities (RECs). The small, sparsely populated, fragmented, and often isolated economies across Africa make a compelling case for these economies to...

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Trade liberalization and South African manufacturing : looking back with data

Driver, Ciaran F. - 2019

This paper provides a retrospective assessment of the effects of trade policies on South African manufacturing since the transition to democracy, examining the differences and commonalities in the views of economists in favour of and against an acceleration of trade liberalization. Data from the...

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The Southern African poultry value chain : regional development versus national imperatives

Ncube, Phumzile; Roberts, Simon; Zengeni, Tatenda - 2017

This paper highlights the key strategies, both regional and domestic, that have led to the current structure of the poultry value chain in Southern Africa. While large firm strategies in poultry have been found to be regional in nature, and important regional developments in soybean production,...

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Nationalism and development in Asia

Duara, Prasenjit - 2018

This paper identifies historic patterns in the dialectic between nationalism and development across various East, South, and Southeast Asian nations. Nationalism as the rationale for development is used by regimes to achieve high levels of growth, but also generates exclusivism and hostilities,...

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COVID-19 and trade facilitation in Southern Africa : implications for the AfCFTA

Mataba, Kudzai; Ismail, Faizel - 2021

COVID-19 has created a trade crisis in Southern Africa, with a dramatic slowdown in cross-border trade. The crisis, which exposed weaknesses and deficiencies in the trade facilitation regimes, presents an opportunity for the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to address and contribute...

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Trade in services : opening markets to create opportunities

Hoekman, Bernard M. - 2017

This paper reviews the role of services in development and growth, the potential role of trade in services as a driver of the productivity performance of sectors that use services as inputs, and the links between services policies and domestic trade costs. Barriers to trade in services have...

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Liberalized trade policy and inequality : evidence from post-Multi-Fibre Arrangement India and some theoretical issues

Kar, Mausumi; Kar, Saibal - 2015

The phased elimination of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement has been one of the most compelling trade policy reforms of the early twenty-first century, and has brought in significant changes in the industrial structures of the countries of the global south. The textile and clothing industry is the...

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Tax revenue implications of trade liberalization in low-income countries

Moller, Lovisa - International Centre for Tax and Development - 2016

Liberalizing trade has proven highly challenging for some low-income countries, as a large share of their tax extraction derives from trade taxation. After significant drops in tariff levels over the last 30 years, the recovery of lost revenues by other sources of taxation has been highly uneven...

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Agricultural and rural transformations in Asian development : past trends and future challenges

Vos, Rob - 2018

countries of the region. In much of East and Southeast Asia, the Green Revolution brought a quantum leap in yields of staple … growth and urbanization, which in turn induced deeper agrarian change and food system transformations. In South Asia, these … insecurity in this part of Asia remain. These challenges remain in a context of relatively advanced urbanization, strongly …

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Does connectivity reduce gender gaps in offfarm employment? : evidence from 12 low- and middle-income countries

Egger, Eva-Maria; Arslan, Aslıhan; Zucchini, Emanuele - 2021

jobs. We combine household survey data from 12 low- and middle-income countries in Asia, Latin America, and sub …

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