Recent literature has shown evidence of positive contributions of export promotion agencies around the world in raising … exports, through the intensive and extensive margins of trade. The number of export promotion agencies has increased … their products. This paper describes the characteristics of export promotion agencies around the world, using a novel …

export sales after entry (the intensive margin), particularly in industries that rely more heavily on relationship … survival of new export products in more contract-intensive industries. These results have important policy implications for … developing countries that seek to boost export growth but many of which suffer from poor contracting institutions …

Does "infant industry" preferential access durably boost export performance? This paper exploits significant trade … Central and Western Africa. Firm-level customs data for selected countries reveal that even in East Africa, the recent export …

domestic market distortions and multiple barriers, resulting in weak export performance and modest regional and global … export performance. This paper analyzes Egypt's exports along three dimensions that are key for export performance and future … the export potential. It explores some of the important supply and demand side factors and assesses the role of trade …

down countries' growth (relative to the world) into three trade-related channels: (i) an export pull measuring the traction …

production sharing since that time. The assessment in this paper, based on export data and simulation results on the ex ante … accession-related effects on export volumes in the literature, finds that the accession must have increased China's real export … difference between the pre- and post-accession export growth rates in the four years before and after accession. This is because …