Africa's export structure in a comparative perspective

By A. Wood, J. Mayer. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. F. Teal
2. Måns Söderbom
3. Benn Eifert
4. V. Ramachandran
5. A. Gelb
6. Edward Anderson
7. S. Rickard
8. T. Caraway

In Strategy and Management

1. V. Ramachandran
2. Benn Eifert
3. A. Gelb
4. Måns Söderbom
5. F. Teal
6. Edward Anderson
7. S. Rickard
8. T. Caraway

Citations in the corpus

• International Negotiations and Domestic Politics: The Case of IMF Labor Market Conditionality (2012, background): “…Rudra to identify high-skill and low-skill industries in developing countries+68 65+ Rudra 2005+ 66+ Frenkel and Peetz 1998+ 67+ Rudra 2002+ 68+ See Wood and Mayer 2001; and Rudra 2002+ The second component of the plp measure, surplus labor, is drawn from the development economics literature,…”
• Openness and inequality in developing countries: a review of theory and recent evidence (2005, background): “Broadly speaking, the comparative advantages of most South and East Asian countries lie in manufactures (Mayer & Wood, 2001), while the comparative advantages of the majority of African countries lie in primary products (Wood & Mayer, 2001).”
• Are manufacturing exports the key to economic success in Africa (2003, background): “11 There has been dispute as to whether Africa’s factor endowment does permit it to compete in international markets for labour-intensive goods, see Wood and Mayer (1998) and Teal (1999). lowest capital intensity (ie are the most labour intensive) are the textile sector within South Africa and the…”
• South Africa's Export Performance: Determinants of Export supply (2006, unknown): “Dependence on primary and natural resource-based exports also inhibits diversification as it can lead to a ‘Dutch Disease’ effect (Wood and Mayer, 2001), and results in volatile exchange rate movements (Sachs and Warner, 1997; Collier, 2001).”
• Skills, Investment and Exports from Manufacturing Firms in Africa (2000, background): “The second argument is that it is the low levels of skills relative to natural resources that explain low manufacturing exports and the dominance of natural resource intensive goods in its exports [Wood and Berge, 1997; Wood and Mayer, 1998; Wood and Jordan, this collection].”
• The Cost of Doing Business in Africa: Evidence from Enterprise Survey Data (2008, background): “Wood and Berge (1997) and Wood and Mayer (2001) apply this simple idea to patterns of trade, modeling the relationship between the composition of exports and endowments of skills and land per worker.”
• Modeling the effects of trade on women, at work and at home. (2000, background): “Malmberg Calvo, C., 1994, Case study on the role of women in rural transport: access of women to domestic facilities , Washington D.C.: The World Bank Mayer, J. and Wood, A., 2001, South Asia s export structure in a comparative perspective Oxford Development Studies Vol 29 No 1 McCulloch, N., Winter”