Growth, Learning, Entry and Exit among African Exporters

Year:

2005

Publication Author(s):

Rankin, Mans Soderbom and Francis Teal, N.

This paper investigates whether African manufacturing exporters are more productive than non-exporters and whether these productivity differences precede entry into the export market. We find at expoters are more productive but that productivity does not matter for entry into t export market - suggesting that learning by exporting is important. We investigate the nature this relationship and find that exporters donot have higher rates of productiity growth than non-exporters.

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