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The South African manufacturing exporter storyExisting South African work on firm-level data has been limited by access to large datasets that track firms over time...
Business Commerce ProductivityWorking Paper
Commercialization in agriculture in rural Vietnam, 2006-14The vast majority of households in rural Vietnam undertake agricultural activities and for many this is their main livelihood. Moreover, this agriculture has become increasingly commercialized over time...
Agricultural credit Agriculture AquacultureBook Chapter
Regional Integration in AfricaFrom the book: Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Vol. 2...
Commerce Economies of scale International economic relationsWorking Paper
Scoping of the Tunisian EconomyIn this scooping paper on the Tunisian economy we review the historical background of the economy which has undergone substantial structural change since independence in 1956...
Commerce Economic development Industrial policyWorking Paper
Exporting and Productivity: The Role of Ownership and Innovation in the Case of VietnamIn this paper, we investigate the relationship between exporting and productivity in the case of Vietnam using an extensive firm level panel dataset for the period 2005-11...
Business enterprises Commerce Organizational behaviorWorking Paper
Regional Integration in Africa: Challenges and ProspectsPolitical motives, geography, and the uneven distribution of gains trumped the traditional efficiency gains across Africa’s Regional Economic Communities (RECs)...
Commerce Economies of scale International economic relationsBook Chapter
Tunisia's Development Experience: A Success Story?From the book: Achieving Development Success
Commerce Economic development Human fertilityBook Chapter
Vietnam as a Role Model for DevelopmentFrom the book: Achieving Development Success
Commerce Economic development GlobalizationBook Chapter
The Mauritian Success Story and its LessonsFrom the book: Achieving Development Success
Commerce Economic development Economic policyBook Chapter
European Transition at Twenty: Assessing Progress in Countries and SectorsFrom the book: Economies in Transition
Commerce Economic development Industrial organization (Economic theory)Journal Article
Designing Economic Partnership Agreements to Promote Intra-Regional Trade in ACP CountriesPart of Journal Special Issue South-South and North-South Trade Agreements
Commerce International trade Public welfareWorking Paper
European Transition at Twenty: Assessing Progress in Countries and SectorsThis study gauges the status of transition in the formerly centrally planned economies of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, using a broad approach that compares countries with respect to their business environment, competition, and managerial practice...
Commerce Economic development Industrial organization (Economic theory)Book Chapter
Asia's Labour-Driven Growth, Flying Geese Style: Types of Trade, FDI, and Institutions Matter for the PoorFrom the book: The Poor under Globalization in Asia, Latin America, and Africa
Commerce Economic development LabourWorking Paper
Trading Inequality? Insights from the Two Globalizations in Latin AmericaTrade flows among countries have increased dramatically during the last globalization episode creating new winners and losers between and within countries...
Commerce History of economics Equality and inequalityWorking Paper
The Mauritian Success Story and its LessonsThis paper examines different explanations—initial conditions, openness to trade and FDI, and institutions—of the Mauritian growth experience since the mid-1970s...
Commerce Economic development Economic policyWorking Paper
Tunisia's Development Experience: A Success Story?Tunisia’s recent growth and development performance relative to countries in its region, and relative to countries at similar levels of development in other parts of the world, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, have been notable...
Commerce Economic development Human fertility