Supply-Side Constraints, Capital Goods Imports, and the Quality of Sub-Saharan African Countries' Exports

Catherine Co

No wp-2014-142, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: In the last decade, a large portion of capital goods imports of Sub-Saharan African countries is telecommunications equipment, and China is now the main source of equipment for 30 Sub-Saharan African countries. A connection between specific types of equipment imports and subsequent exports is found with elasticity estimates ranging from 0.2 to 1.2 per cent. Estimates show that controlling for price, the estimated quality of Sub-Saharan African countries' exports is lower than that of their peers.

Keywords: Capital; Economic growth; International trade; Regression analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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