Non-Traditional Export Promotion in Africa: Experience and Issues

by G. Helleiner

Overview

The volume contains original essays by authors who have worked together to derive lessons for African export prospects from the experiences of some of the more successful developing countries in East Asia and Latin America. They present up-to-date data and analysis on non-traditional exporting experience, problems and prospects in a sample of seven Subsaharan African countries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333968918
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/14/2001
Series:	Studies in Development Economics and Policy
Edition description:	2001
Pages:	339
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

MANUEL AGOSIN Professor of Economics and Director, Centre on International Economics and Development, University of Chile ANTHONY BLACK Lecturer in Economics, University of Cape Town JESIMEN CHIPIKA Lecturer, University of Zimbabwe BEEALASINGH DABEE Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Mauritius ROB DAVIES Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Zimbabwe IBRAHIM ELBADAWI Policy Research Group, World Bank BRIAN KAHN Professor and Director, School of Economics, University of Cape Town SANJAYA LALL Professor in Development Economics, University of Oxford AMMON V.Y. MBELLE Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Dar es Salaam FRANCIS MWEGA Associate Professor of Economics, University of Nairobi BENNO NDULU Lead Specialist, Macroeconomic Division for Eastern Africa, World Bank ENNIO RODRÍGUEZ Senior Economist, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC JOSEPH J. SEMBOJA Associate Research Professor, Economic Research Bureau, University of Dar es Salaam.

Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Tables Notes on the Contributors Foreword: G. A.Cornia Preface Introduction: G.K.Helleiner PART I: NON-AFRICAN EXPERIENCE AND ISSUES Selective Policies for Export Promotion: Lessons from the Asian Tigers; S.Lall Export Performance in Chile: Lessons for Africa; M.Agosin Costa Rica: Policies and Conditions for Export Diversification; E.Rodríguez Real Exchange Rate Policy and Non-Traditional Exports in Developing Countries; I.Elbadawi PART II: FIVE AFRICAN COUNTRIES' EXPERIENCE Promotion of Non-Traditional Exports in Kenya, 1980-96; F.Mwega The Role of Non-Traditional Exports in Mauritius; B.Dabee Growing Without Gold? South Africa's Non-Traditional Exports Since 1980; A.Black & B.Kahn Promoting Non-Traditional Exports in Tanzania; B.Ndulu, J.Semboja & A.Mbelle Economic Reforms and Non-Traditional Exports in Zimbabwe: Is Anything Taking Shape?; J.Chipika & R.Davies Index

Editorial Reviews

'Non-traditional Export Promotion in Africa includes a wide range of articles about country experiences with non-traditional export promotion. The book provides interesting insights in the experience of developing countries in non-traditional export promotion...[and] gives helpful advice to policy makers and interesting ideas for the scientific reader.' - African Development Perspectives Yearbook

'The book provides interesting insights in the experience of developing countries in non-traditional export promotion...the book gives helpful advice to policy makers and interesting ideas for the scientific reader.' - Tobias Knedlik, Book reviews and Book Notes

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