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Firm-level employment growth in South Africa: The role of innovation and exportsThis paper investigates the effect of innovation on employment growth at the firm level in South Africa. Innovation is typically associated with better export performance at the firm level due to productivity enhancements and new products...
Employment Exports Firm growthWorking Paper
Moving up the copper value chain in Southern AfricaSouthern African countries—mainly Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo—account for around a seventh of global production of copper...
copper Industrialization AgglomerationJournal Article
Effects of Foreign Aid on Income through International TradePart of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness
bilateral aid Exports Free tradeWorking Paper
Trade liberalization and South African manufacturing: Looking back with dataThis paper provides a retrospective assessment of the effects of trade policies on South African manufacturing since the transition to democracy, examining the differences and commonalities in the views of economists in favour of and against an accel...
Trade policy Manufacturing Trade liberalizationWorking Paper
Effects of foreign aid on income through international tradeThis paper presents a review of recent studies that estimate the trade effects of foreign aid...
bilateral aid Exports Free tradeWorking Paper
From manufacturing-led export growth to a twenty-first-century inclusive growth strategy: Explaining the demise of a successful growth model and what to do about itSuccess in development over the past half-century was based on manufacturing-led export growth. Because the share of global employment in manufacturing will decline, manufacturing won’t play the same role in the coming decades...
Stockholm Statement Industrial policy Dynamic comparative advantageBook Chapter
Regional opportunities in East AfricaFrom the book: Industries without Smokestacks
Exports Free trade Customs unionBook Chapter
Rwanda: From devastation to services-first transformationFrom the book: Industries without Smokestacks
Africa Economic growth ExportsBook Chapter
Senegal: A service economy in need of an export boostFrom the book: Industries without Smokestacks
Exports Services TourismBook Chapter
Industries without smokestacks: Mozambique country case studyFrom the book: Industries without Smokestacks
Industries Exports policyBook Chapter
Implications for Ethiopia's industrializationFrom the book: Industries without Smokestacks
Ethiopia Exports TourismBook Chapter
Mining's contribution to low- and middle-income economiesFrom the book: Extractive Industries
Mining Development Tax revenueBook Chapter
Dependence on extractive industries in lower-income countries: The statistical tendenciesFrom the book: Extractive Industries
Development Oil GasJournal Article
Key issues in regional growth and integration in Southern AfricaPart of Journal Special Issue Regional Growth Opportunities
Food industry and trade Exports Regional integrationWorking Paper
Mining’s contribution to low- and middle-income economiesIn several low- and middle-income countries with important extractive sectors, gross national income has developed favourably. Africa has benefitted most, particularly West Africa...
Mining Development Tax revenueWorking Paper
Dependence on extractive industries in lower-income countries: The statistical tendenciesThis paper synthesizes statistical information evidencing the proposition that extractive industries are of great significance in many low- and middle-income developing economies...
Development Oil Gas