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Trade structure and growth: how does Africa fair against the world?

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  • Sibusisiwe Mchani
  • Andrew Phiri

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We present a comparative analysis on the trade structure-growth nexus using two panel samples representing the top 10 trading African economies and the top 10 global trading economies covering the period 1995-2017. The findings from the pooled mean group estimators show disparities in the diversification/concentration-economic growth relationship between the two samples. On one hand, both diversification and concentration are found to be beneficial for short-run growth in the African sample but insignificant for the global sample. On the other hand, export concentration is harmful to long-run growth for the African sample but beneficial for long-run growth in the global sample. In further applying panel causality tests we only observe significant causal relations between export diversification/concentration and economic growth for the global sample and yet none are observed for the African sample and the policy implications of our findings are discussed.

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  • Sibusisiwe Mchani & Andrew Phiri, 2020. "Trade structure and growth: how does Africa fair against the world?," International Journal of Sustainable Economy, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 12(2), pages 184-203.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijsuse:v:12:y:2020:i:2:p:184-203
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