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Did AGOA work? Identification and export incentives
The former USTR-Africa who designed the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) preferential trade scheme declares it a “phenomenal success“: Rosa Whitaker: I think it’s been a phenomenal success....
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FT: “Call centre workers are becoming as cheap to hire in the US as they are in India, according to the head of the country’s largest business process outsourcing company.” [HT: Tepper]
View ArticleWhat is “African growth”?
Lant Pritchett provides some numbers to underscore a classic argument: Perhaps the best thing the developed world could do for the growth prospects of Africa is to stop talking about the growth...
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Rich-country trade preferences
CGD’s Kim Elliott posts this handy summary of developed countries’ trade-preferences programs:
View ArticleThe export market test
Tyler Cowen on exports and development: Have you ever wondered why so many developing economies—the successful ones, I mean—rise to prosperity through exports and tradable goods? There are a few...
View ArticleSutton & Trefler: “Deductions from the Export Basket: Capabilities, Wealth...
If you’re keen on the literatures about trade and product quality or economic growth and the export basket, you should probably check out NBER 16834: This paper re-explores the relation between a...
View ArticleExport pioneers
In a NBER working paper, Artopoulos, Friel, and Hallak describe how firms in Argentina learned to successfully export to high-income markets: Several developing countries feature weak performances as...
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AFT on Railroads of the Raj
A Fine Theorem has a nice write-up of Dave Donaldson’s Railroads of the Raj. He’s put in more effort than I did when writing it up in 2009.
View ArticleNotes on Kuala Lumpur
I was in Malaysia this week for a family wedding. Five short observations: The story of Balassa and Samuelson, or at least the Penn effect that it aims to explain, is a reliable guide to relative...
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