Economic Geography and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) physical geography is often blamed for its poor economic performance. A country's geographical location does, however, not only determine its agricultural conditions or disease environment. It also pins down a country's relative position vis-à-vis other coun...

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Main Authors:	Bosker, Maarten, Garretsen, Harry
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2014
Subjects:	access to foreign markets access to markets domestic market export market export markets Gross Domestic Product intermediate goods international markets International Trade market access merchandise merchandise exports merchandise trade price fluctuations price index spread substitutes supplier suppliers world markets
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19080

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spelling	okr-10986-190802021-04-23T14:03:51Z Economic Geography and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa Bosker, Maarten Garretsen, Harry access to foreign markets access to markets domestic market export market export markets Gross Domestic Product intermediate goods international markets International Trade market access merchandise merchandise exports merchandise trade price fluctuations price index spread substitutes supplier suppliers world markets Sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) physical geography is often blamed for its poor economic performance. A country's geographical location does, however, not only determine its agricultural conditions or disease environment. It also pins down a country's relative position vis-à-vis other countries, affecting its ease of access to foreign markets. This paper assesses the importance of market access for manufactures in explaining the observed income differences between SSA countries over the period 1993–2009. We construct yearly, theory-based measures of each SSA country's market access using the information contained in bilateral manufacturing trade flows. Using these measures, we find a robust positive effect of market access on economic development that has increased in importance during the last decade. Interestingly, when further unraveling this finding, access to other SSA markets in particular turns out to be important. 2014-07-30T20:04:22Z 2014-07-30T20:04:22Z 2012-11 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X 10.1093/wber/lhs001 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19080 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Sub-Saharan Africa
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spellingShingle	access to foreign markets access to markets domestic market export market export markets Gross Domestic Product intermediate goods international markets International Trade market access merchandise merchandise exports merchandise trade price fluctuations price index spread substitutes supplier suppliers world markets Bosker, Maarten Garretsen, Harry Economic Geography and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
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description	Sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) physical geography is often blamed for its poor economic performance. A country's geographical location does, however, not only determine its agricultural conditions or disease environment. It also pins down a country's relative position vis-à-vis other countries, affecting its ease of access to foreign markets. This paper assesses the importance of market access for manufactures in explaining the observed income differences between SSA countries over the period 1993–2009. We construct yearly, theory-based measures of each SSA country's market access using the information contained in bilateral manufacturing trade flows. Using these measures, we find a robust positive effect of market access on economic development that has increased in importance during the last decade. Interestingly, when further unraveling this finding, access to other SSA markets in particular turns out to be important.
format	Journal Article
author	Bosker, Maarten Garretsen, Harry
author_facet	Bosker, Maarten Garretsen, Harry
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title	Economic Geography and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_short	Economic Geography and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_full	Economic Geography and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_fullStr	Economic Geography and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_full_unstemmed	Economic Geography and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_sort	economic geography and economic development in sub-saharan africa
publisher	Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
publishDate	2014
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19080
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Economic Geography and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

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