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Working Paper
The South African manufacturing exporter story

Existing South African work on firm-level data has been limited by access to large datasets that track firms over time...

Business Commerce Productivity
Working Paper
Commercialization in agriculture in rural Vietnam, 2006-14

The 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 Aquaculture
Book Chapter
Regional Integration in Africa

From the book: Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Vol. 2...

Commerce Economies of scale International economic relations
Working Paper
Scoping of the Tunisian Economy

In 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 policy
Working Paper
Exporting and Productivity: The Role of Ownership and Innovation in the Case of Vietnam

In 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 behavior
Working Paper
Regional Integration in Africa: Challenges and Prospects

Political 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 relations
Book Chapter
Tunisia's Development Experience: A Success Story?

From the book: Achieving Development Success

Commerce Economic development Human fertility
Book Chapter
Vietnam as a Role Model for Development

From the book: Achieving Development Success

Commerce Economic development Globalization
Book Chapter
The Mauritian Success Story and its Lessons

From the book: Achieving Development Success

Commerce Economic development Economic policy
Book Chapter
European Transition at Twenty: Assessing Progress in Countries and Sectors

From 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 Countries

Part of Journal Special Issue South-South and North-South Trade Agreements

Commerce International trade Public welfare
Working Paper
European Transition at Twenty: Assessing Progress in Countries and Sectors

This 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 Poor

From the book: The Poor under Globalization in Asia, Latin America, and Africa

Commerce Economic development Labour
Working Paper
Trading Inequality? Insights from the Two Globalizations in Latin America

Trade 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 inequality
Working Paper
The Mauritian Success Story and its Lessons

This 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 policy
Working 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
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