1. The National Forest Sector: context and issues Forest resources are a major economic and environmental asset in Gabon. Its forest potential is considered one of the highest in Africa, with over 21,775,000 ha of forested area constituting 85% of its total territory (FAO 2007). Close to 20,000,000 ha can be exploited (PSFE 2005). The forest reserve covers an area of about 1,800,000 ha (PSFE 20...

After the large exchange rate depreciations following the 1997 East Asian crisis, export volumes from East Asian countries responded with a notable lag. Two main explanations for this lag have been proposed: that the policy of high interest rates limited access to domestic credit and hence limited the supply of exports; and that “competitive depreciation” neutralized the effects on demand for e...

I n his 1952 A Geometry of International Trade, Nobel Laureate James Meade presented the definitive modern version of the celebrated reciprocaldemand, or offer-curve, diagram of the trade theorist. The diagram features curves depicting alternative quantities of exports and imports countries are willing to trade at all possible prices (see Figure 1). Let two countries, home and foreign, trade tw...

This paper estimates whether exports affect the incidence of HIV in Africa. This relationship has implications for HIV prevention policy as well as for the consequences of trade increases in Africa. I estimate this impact using two sources of data on HIV incidence, one generated based on UNAIDS estimates and the other based on observed HIV mortality. These data are combined with data on export ...

This paper analyzes the effects of distance as a common determinant of exports and FDI in a three factors New Trade Theory model assuming that distance affects both pure trade costs and plant set-up costs. Exports and FDI are not necessarily substitutes with respect to distance since the predicted sign depends on its importance for fixed plant set-up costs relative to transportation costs. For ...

My new findings from firm-level surveys show that both a firm’s probability of exporting and a firm’s exporting volume increase with the firm’s age after controlling productivity as well as that both probability of and quantity of export are higher among financially non-constrained firms, after controlling age and productivity. This paper develops a model with credit-constrained, heterogeneous ...

In this paper I identify new goods in U.S. imports data at the product levels of 7-digit TSUSA or 10-digit HS codes. I show that consistent with product cycles, the North’s new goods exports relative to old goods exports grow faster than the South’s, and then the South catches up with the North. The catch-up takes 13 ~ 18 years and happens in the 1990s, an age of globalization and outsourcing. ...

The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) was established to promote the exports of low-income countries to industrialized countries in order to support their economic growth and development. However, the design of these schemes is rather complex and the e¤ects of GSP have been found to be controversial. While previous studies solely analyzed preferential agreements of individual granting cou...

Information, Corruption, and Measures for the Promotion of Manufactured Exports Glenn P. Jenkins and Chun-Yan Kuo There has been a growing emphasis in many developing countries on exportled growth policies that attract both domestic and foreign investment into activities for the expansion of manufacturing exports. Often the actual outcome of the policies has been very different than the intenti...

nowadays, countries realize that without having knowledge and technology, they may not export advantaged goods to the global market. generally, technology and knowledge accumulation play vital role for reaching high economic growth rate and economic development. the statistical reports show that iran has not been successful in the high-tech export area; base on those reports, iran’s high-tech e...