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Trade Integration, Export Patterns, and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Calderón, César A. - 2020

integration, namely, trade volumes, export/trade patterns by product (primary and manufacturing goods), and by destination (inter …

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Trade Causes Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Brückner, Markus - 2017

In the 1990s the mainstream consensus was that trade causes growth. Subsequent research shed doubt on the consensus view, as evidence suggested that the identification of the effect of trade on growth was problematic in the existing literature. This paper contributes to this debate by focusing...

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Trading on Time

Djankov, Simeon; Freund, Caroline L.; Pham, Cong S. - 2006

We determine how time delays affect international trade, using newly-collected World Bank data on the days it takes to move standard cargo from the factory gate to the ship in 126 countries. We estimate a modified gravity equation, controlling for endogeneity and remoteness. On average, each...

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Domestic Constraints, Firm Characteristics, and Geographical Diversification of Firm-Level Manufacturing Exports in Africa

Yoshino, Yutaka - 2008

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 …

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The African Growth and Opportunity Act, Exports, and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Brenton, Paul - 2016

export diversification in a few countries, AGOA has fallen short of the potential impetus that preferences could otherwise …

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Is Increasing Inorganic Fertilizer Use in Sub-Saharan Africa a Profitable Proposition? Evidence from Nigeria

Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda - 2020

Inorganic fertilizer use across Sub-Saharan Africa is generally considered to be low. Yet, this belief is predicated on the assumption that it is profitable to use rates higher than currently observed. However, there is little rigorous empirical evidence to support this notion. Using a...

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Farther on Down the Road : Transport Costs, Trade and Urban Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Storeygard, Adam - 2017

Transport costs are widely considered an important barrier to local economic activity but their impact in developing countries is not well-studied. This paper investigates the role of inter-city transport costs in determining the income of Sub-Saharan African cities, using two new data sources....

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Comparative Advantage, Demand for External Finance, and Financial Development

Đỗ-Quý-Toàn; Levchenko, Andrei A. - 2006

specializes in financially intensive goods. By contrast, financial development is lower in countries that primarily export goods … which don't rely on external finance. We demonstrate this effect empirically using data on financial development and export …

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Is Inequality Systematically Underestimated in Sub-Saharan Africa? A Proposal to Overcome the Problem

Clementi, Fabio; Fabiani, Michele; Molini, Vasco; … - 2022

In Africa, evidence on the interactions among poverty, growth, and income distribution presents a puzzle: While growth has been robust in recent decades, the growth elasticity of poverty has remained low. This suggests that inequality has dampened the pro-poor effects of growth. However, when...

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Roads and Rural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Berg, Claudia - 2017

This paper assesses the relation between access to markets and cultivated land in Sub-Saharan Africa. Making use of a geo-referenced panel over three decades (1970-2005) during which the road network was significantly improved, the analysis finds a modest but significant positive association...

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