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Do African Manufacturing Firms Learn from Exporting?
Using firm-level panel data for the manufacturing sector in four African countries, the authors estimate the effect of exporting on efficiency. Evidence of learning-by-exporting suggests that Africa has much to gain from orientating its manufacturing sector towards exporting.
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http://econwpa.wustl.edu:80/eps/dev/papers/0409/0409071.pdf