Search Results - subject:"EXPORT COMPETITIVENESS"

Protection facing exports from sub-Saharan Africa in the EC, Japan, and the United States

Erzan, Refik; Svedberg, Peter - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1989

The authors address two questions in this report : 1) have exporters in sub - Saharan Africa (SSA) faced more or less protection in Japan, the EC, and the United States than other developing countries and 2) to what extent has protection in those markets constrained SSA's export growth. The...

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Incentive policies and agricultural performance in sub-Saharan Africa

Balassa, Bela - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1988

Exports in general, and agricultural exports in particular, are more responsive to price incentives in Sub-Saharan Africa than in developing countries.. These are the results of an econometric investigation on the effects of real exchange rates on exports. It further appears that in Sub-Saharan...

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Corporate Bureaucracies and United States Competitiveness

Engelbrecht, Hans-Jurgen - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 4 (1997) 2, pp. 129-154

nonproduction employment had a detrimental effect on US export competitiveness. This seems to provide an explanation for the large …/or organisational 'fat'. In this study, the hypothesis that the 'organisational factor' is an important determinant of US export … competitiveness and trade in manufactures is tested using industry panel data for 1985-89. The empirical results indicate that, while …

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South Asia Economic Focus, Spring 2015

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank

The South Asia Economic Focus is a biannual economic update presenting recent economic developments and a near term economic outlook for South Asia. It includes a Focus section presenting more in depth analysis of an economic topic of relevance for stability, growth and prosperity in the region...

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World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update, April 2015

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank

The East Asia and Pacific Economic Update provides regular, biannual analyses of development trends and economic policy issues across the East Asia and Pacific region.

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Valuing Services in Trade : A Toolkit for Competitiveness Diagnostics

Sáez, Sebastián; Taglioni, Daria; Marel, Erik van der; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group

The Service Trade Competitiveness Diagnostic (STDC) Toolkit is part of a larger agenda of trade competitiveness work developed by the World Bank’s International Trade Unit in recent years. Services are a key input in countries’ trade competitiveness, as well as a new source of trade...

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South Asia Economic Focus, Fall 2014 : The Export Opportunity

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank

Global recovery remains below expectations and uneven across major advanced economies. Monetary tightening in a recovering US economy and potential deflation in a weak Eurozone constitute sources of risk for developing and emerging market economies. Nonetheless, developing country growth remains...

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Champions Wanted

Jaud, Mélise; Freund, Caroline - Economics Research, World Bank Group

While other emerging regions were thriving, MENA's aggregate export performance over the past two decades has been consistently weak. Using detailed firm-level export data from Customs administrations, this report explains why. One central finding is that the size distribution of MENA's...

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