Growth in service exports has improved countries' per capita incomes, reduced over-reliance on goods exports, and … service exports. This paper examines the competitiveness of service exports in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), focusing on the East … service exports is negligible. The expansion of services trade is constrained by various factors such as non-tariff barriers …

The transition into non-traditional export activities attracts important policy and academic attention. Using … international trade data, we explore how alternative linkages relate to the take-off and acceleration of export industries … labor. Technology has a predictive power depending on the specification used. We consistently find, however, that export …

This paper investigates the nature and pattern of export specialization in Lithuania. The aim of this paper is to … estimate the nature and pattern of Lithuanian export specialization under existing conditions. Seeking to define the nature and … pattern of export specialization, the basic methods of export specialization measurement and the nature and pattern of export …

With the availability of international value added trade data it has become evident that gross export data and value … added data do not provide the same information. Although gross exports crosses national borders and is the target of trade … the distributions of Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) in terms of gross exports and value added for 40 countries. A …