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Bureaucratic performance is a crucial determinant of economic growth. Little is known about how to improve it in resource-constrained settings. This study describes a field trial of a social recognition intervention to improve record keeping in clinics in two Nigerian states, replicating the...
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related to import processing times at the border could impact downstream export dynamics. Exploiting a rich data set built on … export performance, as neither the mean nor the median time to import impacts survival …, and survival in export markets. The analysis finds that uncertainty in the time to clear imported inputs impacts neither …
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anti-export bias and import substitution policies that sought unsuccessfully to develop the local industry. The paper shows … that exporters that import directly intermediate and capital goods have better export outcomes than other exporters … individually larger, with export value extremely concentrated in a few firms. Firm churning rates are disproportionately low and …
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Despite recent efforts toward collecting evidence of vertical specialization for developed economies, scarce work has been dedicated to developing economies and to Argentina, in particular. The key contribution of this paper is to provide comparable estimates of vertical specialization as...
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aggregation model is able to explain a sizable proportion of pass-through of competitors' exchange rates to import prices, and …
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The petroleum sector contributes substantially to the Nigerian economy; however, the potential benefits are diminished because of the existence of significant subsidies on imports of petroleum products. Subsidies on imported petroleum products are considered to be an important instrument for...
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more competitive, and as a result they export more. To evaluate how this policy may impact firms' export performance, the … paper analyzes the impact of input tariff reduction on different margins of trade with emphasis on export markets and …-in-difference estimator using heterogeneous access to import tariff exemption as a measure of different levels of exposure to input tariff …
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are of foreign origin. Furthermore, the paper shows that there may be a nonlinear relationship between import costs and …
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What kinds of changes in foreign competition lead domestic industries to seek import protection? To address this … question this paper uses detailed monthly U.S. import data to investigate changes in import composition during a 24-month … applies both to named commodities and to the comparison product group. The import demand shock, by contrast, is narrow …
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The paper analyzes the relationship between country size and the use of imported intermediate inputs by firms in 76 developing countries. Recent evidence indicates that the use of imported inputs can have a large, positive effect on productivity and growth, thus motivating a better understanding...
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