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Agro-processing and horticultural exports from AfricaFrom the book: Industries without Smokestacks
Africa Agro-processing TradeWorking Paper
Six development paths in Southeast Asia: Three plus threeSix Southeast Asian countries (Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand) defied Gunnar Myrdal’s pessimistic prognosis in his 1968 volume, Asian Drama, regarding their prospects for devel...
Agricultural productivity Investments, Foreign Industrial policyWorking Paper
Diaspora externalities: A view from the SouthMigration decisions affect those left-behind in ways that are partly taken into account by market forces (e.g., wage effects on labour markets) and for the most part these can be seen as pure externalities...
Diaspora networks International migration DevelopmentWorking Paper
New data, new approaches and new evidence: A policy synthesisThe Republic of South Africa faces the imperative of escaping economic stagnation...
South Africa Growth ProductivityWorking Paper
The effects of Chinese import penetration on firm innovation: Evidence from the Vietnamese manufacturing sectorThis paper evaluates the impact of Chinese import penetration on the innovation of Vietnamese manufacturing firms from 2011 to 2015, exploiting variations in import exposure by industry specialization and instrumenting for Chinese import penetration ...
China Manufacturing InnovationWorking Paper
Agro-processing and horticultural exports from AfricaSub-Saharan African exports of horticultural and processed agricultural products are growing in line with the major shift towards these products in world markets...
Africa Agro-processing TradeResearch Brief
Food production competitiveness and regional growth in southern Africa: The animal-feed-to-poultry value chain15-20% of local demand for poultry in South Africa is met by imports Evidence from Zambia suggests that capital investments in the value chain can increase local production Increased demand due to growing urban populations poses critical challenges f...
Value chains Trade PoultryResearch uptake
Learning to Compete (L2C): Accelerating Industrial Development in AfricaLearning to compete (L2C) is collaborative research project between UNU-WIDER, the African Development Bank, and the Brookings Institution. The project aims to answer the question: why is there so little industry in Africa? Industry—including modern...
Trade Competitiveness Industrial policy
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Jobs, poverty and structural change in Africa
Theme: Transformation
Trade Competitiveness Industrial policyProject
Learning to compete (L2C): accelerating industrial development in Africa
Theme: 2010-11
Trade Competitiveness Industrial policyProject
Fragility and developmentTheme: 2006-07
In recent years there is a growing concern within the international donor community regarding the plight of a special group of countries labeled as 'Fragile States'. These states, which according to current donor lists currently numbers more...
Development and Finance Fragility Fragile statesProject
Southern engines of global growthTheme: 2006-07
The project centers on the inter-linkages between the major developing countries of Brazil, India, China and South Africa and the global economy, with a special emphasis on the implications of China’s growth on smaller economies and the rest...
Globalization and Trade Growth Trade