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– The role of firm-level relationships for knowledge transfers in Africa and Asia
This study combines evidence from interviews in seven countries with (i) government institutions responsible for attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), (ii) 102 multinationals (MNEs), and (iii) 226 domestic firms linked to these foreign affiliates as suppliers, customers, or competitors, to...
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– The role of firm-level relationships in knowledge transfers in Africa and Asia
This study combines evidence from interviews in seven countries with (i) government institutions responsible for attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), (ii) 102 multinational enterprises (MNEs), and (iii) 226 domestic firms linked to these foreign affiliates as suppliers, customers, or...
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– The Case of Mozambican Manufacturing
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Learning to Compete
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– Learning from Vietnam
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Learning to Compete
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– Evidence from the Tunisian Manufacturing Sector
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Learning to Compete
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– Comparative Evidence From Kenya and Malaysia
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Learning to Compete
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– The case of Ethiopian manufacturing
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Learning to Compete
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– The case for Special Economic Zones in Africa
Firms tend to cluster in close geographic proximity to each other to benefit from reduced transport costs, shared inputs, and productivity spillovers due to learning and technology transfers. Evidence from low-income countries suggests that such agglomeration economies may be substantial in...
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Understanding industry agglomeration and its driving forces is critical for the formulation of industrial policy in developing countries. Crucial to this process is the definition and measurement of agglomeration. We construct a new coagglomeration index based purely on the location of firms. We...
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– A Porous Dialectic
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Experiments in Development Economics
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Experiments in Development Economics
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– Better Policies? Better Politics?
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Experiments in Development Economics
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– Opportunities and Challenges
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Experiments in Development Economics
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Experiments in Development Economics
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– Definitions and Diagrams
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Experiments in Development Economics
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– Evidence from Senegalese Manufacturing Plant
The increasing quantity of literature investigating the impact of trade openness on firm efficiency has not yet provided a definite prediction of the direction of causality. This paper investigates how the relationship between exporting and productivity impacts on manufacturing sectors in Senegal...
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