INTRODUCTION: High and sustainable export growth, mainly driven by agricultural productivity, is critical for Zambia to reduce poverty and foster economic development. Despite the fact that, Zambia’s economic policies have for a long time emphasised export diversification, copper remains the main export commodity for Zambia. Coffee, an essential export commodity in most eastern African countrie...

Trade restrictions stemming from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) have created a situation in which rare and attractive bird species command high prices on international pet markets. Most of these species are of tropical or subtropical origin, and many are amenable to captive breeding. Hence, the possibility of exporting birds under CITES provisions for the ex...

the agriculture of iran in addition to supplying domestic needs through agricultural exports in foreign trade contributed and exports products are more stable than other sectors. so, developing and expanding of exports can be a ground for iran in global markets. thus, the role of supportive policies in developing export to identify parameters affecting and suppling of agricultural exports of ir...

In recent decades the weight of exports in economic activity has been increasing. Hence great importance is given to analysing the determinants of their behaviour. When such analysis is carried out, it often considers the determining variables to be only those that affect export demand, particularly competitiveness and external demand. Thus it does not take into account the factors that can inf...

This paper studies the nature of firm-level turnover across markets worldwide and the evolution of key firm-level entry determinants, such as productivity and demand, in international markets. We document a number novel findings that distinguish the behaviour of Chinese exporters in international markets. First, firm-level sorting and export frequencies across markets are much more strongly cor...

To understand the effects of trade policy uncertainty on firm-level export decisions, we study firm-product data on Chinese exports to the U.S. in the years surrounding China’s 2001 WTO accession. Following predictions based on a model of heterogeneous firms, we provide empirical evidence that product-level tariff uncertainty reduction spurred a notable reallocation of export activities across ...

This study examines the implications of recent trade trends and long-term price projections for Sub-Saharan Africa’s major exports. Its policy message for Africa is two fold. First, Africa must diversify away from traditional products or continue to experience serious negative trade effects including; (i) declining or relatively low growth in global demand for these goods, (ii) falling real pri...

Dairy is highly regulated in many countries for several reasons. Perishability, seasonal imbalances, and inelastic supply and demand for milk can cause inherent market instability. Milk buyers typically have had more market power than dairy farmers. Comparative production advantages in some countries have led to regulations and policies to protect local dairy farmers by maintaining domestic pri...

The macroeconomic evidence on the short-term impact of exchange rates on exports and prices is notoriously weak. In this paper I examine the micro-foundations of this disconnect by looking at firms’ export and price setting decisions in response to fluctuations in exchange rates and credit conditions using German firm survey data. Firmlevel data on pricing and export expectations enables me to ...