This article draws on aggregate evidence from 54 relevant studies to improve understanding
of internationalization behavior of African firms. Its major findings include an upward trend in …

This paper investigates whether one of the most important US policies toward Africa of the
past few decades achieved its desired result. In 2000, the United States dropped trade …

1 Introduction Globalisation and its relationship to poverty reduction is a subject of intense
debate among academics, policy actors and street protestors. Globalisation can be …

Recent research from the IMF and the World Bank suggests that restrictive trade policies
could lead to poor economic growth in many developing countries. This paper exploits over …

What drives small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to enter export markets? This study
introduces a configuration approach using a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to …

This study aims to investigate the capabilities of knowledge-based firms in Iranian chemical
industries and to analyze the link between these capabilities and the firms' international …

Lesotho, a resource-poor country located inside South Africa, is now Africa's largest exporter
of apparel to the US. Its performance, very unusual for Africa, relies heavily on Asian …

Numerous studies have examined the relationship between trade liberalisation policies and
economic growth. However, existing studies have largely ignored Southern African countries …

International development is now a major global activity and the focus of the rapidly growing
academic discipline of development studies. The Encyclopedia of International …

This paper outlines the dynamics of global clothing and textile value chains. In addition, it
focuses on how the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa have been drawn into these …