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The social profitability of rural roads in a small open economy: Do urban agglomeration economies matter?The effects of a rural roads programme depend on labour mobility, how the programme is financed, and agglomera-tion economies...
Agglomeration Benefit programmes Transportation costWorking Paper
Measuring illicit financial flows: A gravity model approach to estimate international trade misinvoicingIllicit financial flows have recently attracted the attention of academia, practitioners, and multilateral organizations who consider them harmful to economic development...
Gravity model Illicit financial flows International tradeWorking Paper
Rural roads and urban agglomeration economies: Benefits for town and country?Do urban agglomeration economies enhance the social profitability of rural roads? When all goods are traded at parametric world prices, lower transport costs benefit villagers...
Agglomeration Benefit programmes Transportation costBook Chapter
Component Trade and China's Global Economic IntegrationFrom the book: The Rise of China and India
Economic integration Infrastructure (Economics) International tradeBook Chapter
Foreign Direct Investment and Trade in the Southern African Development CommunityFrom the book: Southern Engines of Global Growth
International trade Foreign investments Social stabilityWorking Paper
Component Trade and China’s Global Economic IntegrationChina’s engagement in the so-called international fragmentation of production – namely ‘cross-border dispersion of component production/assembly within vertically integrated manufacturing industries’ – has become an incr...
Economic integration Infrastructure (Economics) International tradeWorking Paper
Foreign Direct Investment and Trade in the Southern African Development CommunityWe use a modified gravity model to estimate the relationship between trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)...
International trade Foreign investments Social stabilityWorking Paper
Export Diversity and Regional Growth: Empirical Evidence from South AfricaThis paper provides empirical evidence on the relationship between exports, and in particular export diversity, and regional growth in a developing country context...
Economic development Foreign investments Regional economicsWorking Paper
The Determinants of Regional Manufactured Exports from a Developing CountryIn this paper, the question of the location of exporters of manufactured goods within a country is investigated...
International trade Manufacturing Transportation costWorking Paper
The Geographical Location of Manufacturing Exporters in South AfricaThis paper provides empirical evidence on the location of export-oriented manufacturing firms in Africa (South Africa), and on how the patterns of location has changed over the past decade after the country embarked on trade liberalization...
Manufacturing industries Natural resources Trade regulationBook Chapter
International Trade, Location, and Wage Inequality in ChinaFrom the book: Spatial Inequality and Development
International trade Regional economics Transportation costWorking Paper
International Trade, Location and Wage Inequality in ChinaModels of economic geography predict that transportation costs directly affect demand for goods and the supply of intermediate inputs...
International trade Regional economics Transportation cost