Impact of South-South FDI and trade on the export upgrading of African economies
License
Access Rights
Cadmus Permanent Link
Full-text via DOI
ISBN
ISSN
0305-750X
Issue Date
Type of Publication
LC Subject Heading
EUI Research Cluster(s)
Initial version
Published version
Succeeding version
Preceding version
Published version part
Earlier different version
Initial format
Author(s)
Citation
World development, 2014, Vol. 64, pp. 1-17
[Global Governance Programme]; [Global Economics]
Cite
AMIGHINI, Alessia, SANFILIPPO, Marco, Impact of South-South FDI and trade on the export upgrading of African economies, World development, 2014, Vol. 64, pp. 1-17, [Global Governance Programme], [Global Economics] - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/33903
Abstract
We explore the impact of FDI and imports on the upgrading of African exports. We find that South South flows impact differently from North South ones on the ability of recipients to absorb the positive spillovers. Results support the view that South South integration has a strong potential for accelerating structural transformation in the continent. South South FDI foster diversification in key low-tech industries such as agro-industry and textiles, and raise the average quality of manufacturing exports, while importing from the South increases the ability to expand the variety of manufactured exports and to introduce more advanced goods in less-diversified economies.
Table of Contents
Additional Information
External Links
Publisher
Geographical Coverage
Temporal Coverage
Version
Published version of EUI RSCAS WP 2013/75 Global Governance Programme-68