Exporting Africa

Author : Paul Brenton,Olivier Cadot,Martha Denisse Pierola
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821395592

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Pathways to African Export Sustainability by Paul Brenton,Olivier Cadot,Martha Denisse Pierola Pdf

Research carried out for this book demonstrates that governments can and should help to reduce the rate of failure of African export ventures through a mixture of improvements in the business environment, as well as well-targeted proactive interventions. The business environment can be made more conducive to sustainable export entrepreneurship through traditional policy prescriptions such as reducing transportation costs, facilitating trade through better technology and workflow in border management, improving the effectiveness of banking regulations to ensure the availability of trade finance, and striving for regulatory simplicity and coherence. In addition, governments can help leverage synergies between exporters. Original research featured in this book shows that African exporters improve each other's chances of survival when a critical mass of them penetrates a given market together. They also benefit from diaspora presence in destination markets.

Author : Sam Wangwe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134799305

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Exporting Africa by Sam Wangwe Pdf

Exporting Africa explains how firms, which have developed export trade in Sub-Saharan economies, have been able to sustain their competitiveness in the face of rapid technological change in the international economy: in short, how they deal with the threats and the promises which rapid technological changes present to Africa. The papers present new empirical research and an innovative conceptual framework.

Author : S. M. Wangwe
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415126916

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Exporting Africa by S. M. Wangwe Pdf

The economic crisis which has hit Africa since 1985 is raising questions about Africa's future position in World Trade and whether it has any chance of developing a competitive industrial structure. Presenting studies of 55 exporting manufacturers in six African countries, this collection examines the question of why some firms in the Sub-Saharan economies have been able to develop export trade, despite generally unfavourable circumstances. In particular the papers seek to understand how these firms have been able to sustain their competitiveness in the face of rapid technological change in the international economy in the context of the threats and promises such change presents to Africa. A case is made for selective complementary investments by governments to build the technological capabilities which are necessary for attaining and maintaining competitiveness. The papers present empirical research and a framework which should be of interest to academics in the development field and to government as well as international policy makers.

Author : Ibrahim Elbadawi
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Capital market
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Can Africa Export Manufactures? by Ibrahim Elbadawi Pdf

Abstract: May 1999 - Africa's poor performance in manufactured exports in the 1990s (relative to East Asia) appears to be largely the result of bad policies-especially policies that affect transaction costs. Elbadawi analyzes the determinants of manufactured exports in Africa and other developing countries, guided by three pivotal views on Sub-Saharan Africa's (Africa's) prospects in manufactured exports: Adrian Woods holds that Africa cannot have comparative advantage in exports of labor-intensive manufactures (even if broadly defined to include raw material processing) because its natural resources endowment is greater than its human resources endowment (endowment thesis); Paul Collier argues that, for most of Africa, unusually high (policy-induced) transaction costs are the main source of Africa's comparative disadvantage in manufactured exports (transaction thesis); A third approach (Elbadawi and Helleiner) emphasizes the importance of stable, competitive real exchange rates for profitability of exports in low-income countries (exchange rate-led strategy). Elbadawi tests the implications of these three views with an empirical model of manufactured export performance (manufactured exports' share of GDP), using a panel of 41 countries for 1980-95. His findings: Corroborate the predictions of the transaction thesis, in that transaction costs are major determinants of manufactures exports. Investing in reducing these costs generates the highest payoff for export capacity; Lend support for the exchange rate-led strategy. After controlling for other factors, ratios of natural resources per worker were not robustly associated with export performance across countries, but this cannot be taken as formal rejection of the endowment thesis - unless one is prepared to assume that manufactured exports' share of GDP was highly correlated with ratios of manufactured to aggregate (or primary) exports. But this is not unlikely. This paper-a product of Public Economics, Development Research Group-is part of a larger effort in the group to research manufactures exports' competitiveness. The author may be contacted at [email protected].

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821334395

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Africa Can Compete! by Anonim Pdf

All 15 new independent states established in the economic space of the former Soviet Union suffered big declines in output and trade after gaining independence. This study summarizes cross-country experience on the role of trade and payments policies in the linked contraction of output and trade by drawing on eight country case studies: Estonia, the Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. The results of the case studies show that trade reform and reorientation of trade toward the rest of the world have done much to arrest the decline in output usually associated with the transformation from plan to market. Also available in English: Stock no. 13615 (ISBN 0-8213-3615-0).

Author : Ibrahim Elbadawi,Taye Mengistae
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business enterprises
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Market Access, Supplier Access, and Africa's Manufactured Exports by Ibrahim Elbadawi,Taye Mengistae Pdf

"In a large cross-country sample of manufacturing establishments drawn from 188 cities, average exports per establishment are smaller for African firms than for businesses in other regions. The authors show that this is mainly because, on average, African firms face more adverse economic geography and operate in poorer institutional settings. Once they control for the quality of institutions and economic geography, what in effect is a negative African dummy disappears from the firm level exports equation they estimate. One part of the effect of geography operates through Africa's lower "foreign market access:" African firms are located further away from wealthier or denser potential export markets. A second occurs through the region's lower "supplier access:" African firms face steeper input prices, partly because of their physical distance from cheaper foreign suppliers, and partly because domestic substitutes for importable inputs are more expensive. Africa's poorer institutions reduce its manufactured exports directly, as well as indirectly, by lowering foreign market access and supplier access. Both geography and institutions influence average firm level exports significantly more through their effect on the number of exporters than through their impact on how much each exporter sells in foreign markets. "--World Bank web site.

Author : Francis Ng,Alexander J. Yeats
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Open Economies Work Better! by Francis Ng,Alexander J. Yeats Pdf

Author : John Isemede
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231145

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Exporting in West Africa by John Isemede Pdf

A guide to the principles, practice and challenges of international trade. It is written from a Nigerian perspective; and aims to contribute to changing the culture and thinking in Nigeria from import dependency to orientation towards export by analysing the issues and providing guidance and direction which exporters require. Contents: introduction to export; documentation in internal trade; organising and preparing for for export; business environment and management; exporting from Nigeria to Europe/ACP countries; international trade laws and conventions; export marketing and consumer behaviour; export costing methods; export finance, payments and repatriation of proceeds, agencies in the export chain; produce exports and commodity exchange; international standards and inspection services; insurance and risk management; cargo handling; and ECOWAS.

Author : Fukase, Emiko,Martin, Will
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Agro-processing and horticultural exports from Africa by Fukase, Emiko,Martin, Will Pdf

This paper analyzes the principal features of agro-processing and horticultural exports from SSA and explores policy alternatives based on simulation analyses. We first provide a conceptual section focusing on changing patterns of processing and exports (section 2). We then examine how the pattern of exports from Africa compares with the pattern in other regions (section 3). Following that, we examine the directions of trade in African agricultural exports and the patterns of protection facing, and imposed by, African countries (section 4). Next, we turn to simulation exercises to examine the impacts of potential reforms on exports of processed and horticultural exports from Africa (section 5). With this as background, we turn to consider the options for policy makers in Africa (section 6).

Author : Mr.Joshua E. Greene
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1992-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781451847567

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The Export Performance of Sub-Saharan Africa, 1970-19+L69390 by Mr.Joshua E. Greene Pdf

The export performance of Sub-Saharan Africa has lagged behind that of developing countries in other regions for the past two decades, and total export proceeds have fallen significantly since 1980. Many factors explain this outcome, including continued concentration in slowly-growing non-fuel primary commodities and domestic economic policies that have discouraged new investment that could promote diversification and increased production of traditional crops. Diversification into new agricultural products and light manufactures could boost export earnings, but only if the region can compete successfully with existing producers elsewhere. In most countries this will require major structural reforms to create a more attractive economic environment.

Author : Michael Barratt Brown,Pauline Tiffen
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000112388

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Short Changed by Michael Barratt Brown,Pauline Tiffen Pdf

An examination of Africa and world trade.

Author : Alexander J. Yeats
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 082133669X

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Did Domestic Policies Marginalize Africa in International Trade? by Alexander J. Yeats Pdf

World Bank Technical Paper No. 344. Presents and analyzes a wealth of data on levels of and trends in health status, delivery of services, and financing in each of the former Soviet states of Central Asia. The paper examines health care reform from the perspectives of macroeconomic constraints, the demographic and epidemiological transitions facing each country, the underlying structure and financing of their health systems, and what they have inherited from the old Soviet system.

Author : Azita Amjadi,Alexander J. Yeats
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Exports
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Have Transport Costs Contributed to the Relative Decline of African Exports? by Azita Amjadi,Alexander J. Yeats Pdf

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127373897

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Sub-Saharan Africa by United States. General Accounting Office Pdf

Author : United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789211561883

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Economic Development in Africa 2008 by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Pdf

This year’s report examines Africa’s export performance after trade liberalization in order to draw lessons for use in the design of future development strategies. It identifies Africa’s weak supply response as the most important impediment to the continent’s export performance, suggesting that future export policies should focus more on ways to increase production for export. The publication proposes some policies that could help Africa to refocus its development priorities on structural transformation in order to increase the continent’s supply capacity and export response.