Business Environment and Comparative Advantage in Africa: Evidence from the Investment Climate Data

By Benn Eifert, A. Gelb, V. Ramachandran. 2005

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Aid, employment, and poverty reduction in Africa (2014, background): “Investment-climate reforms are central to the success of any industrial development strategy: indirect costs make Africa less competitive (Eifert et al. 2005).”
China and India: What's in it for Africa? (2006, background): “122 See in particular, Collier and Gunning (1999); Collier (2003); Berman and Leys (1994); Eifert et al. (2005). 123 Mauritius is now adjusting to adverse developments in the textile and clothing industries by moving into high value-added service activities based on information and communication tec”
Innovation strategies, process and product innovations and growth: Firm-level evidence from Brazil (2012, background): “The impact of international linkages on innovative and growth performance is mixed.”
African Economic Outlook 2012 (2012, background): “Standard Bank estimated that M&A activity between Africa and China rose 90% in 2011 to USD 5 billion.”
Trade Facilitation and Manufactured Exports: Is Africa Different? (2009, background): “providing a investment and business environment that is conducive to private sector development ( Eifert, Gelb and Ramachandran, 2005 ).”
High-growth entrepreneurial firms in Africa: a quantile regression approach (2010, background): “This is confirmed by Eifert et al. (2005) who show that African firms, in comparison to those in Asia, suffer from high infrastructural and related costs—costs for transport, logistics, telecom, water, electricity, land and buildings, marketing, accounting, security, and bribes— which depress their ”
Effect of financial development on economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa (2018, background): “Indeed, SSA countries have comparative advantage in agriculture emanating from their abundant factor endowments, productivity and costs differences and from dynamic economies of scale (Collier and Venables, 2007; Eifert et al., 2005).”
Entrepreneurship and SMEs in Ethiopia: Evaluating the role, prospects and problems faced by women in this emergent sector (2008, background): “Uneconomic operations impose major threats on industries because of high-cost regions commanding 30 per cent higher price levels than the developing counties ( Benn et al. , 2005”