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  Review paper: The impacts of business support services for small and medium enterprises on firm performance in low-and middle-income countries: a systematic review

  The Campbell Collaboration, 2015

  Business support interventions in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) direct a large amount of resources to SMEs, with the assumption that institutional constraints impede small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from generating profits and employment at the firm level, which in turn is thought to impede economic growth and poverty reduction.
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  Mobile phone interventions for improving economic and productive outcomes for farm and non - farm rural enterprises and households in low and middle - income countries

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2013

  The link between economic growth, development and the ability to communicate over distances is a topic that has been extensively debated in available literature. There are three possible impacts of improved communication technologies: they are beneficial in development terms, they are neutral; or they are harmful.
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  Drivers of regional integration: value chains, investment and new forms of co-operation

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015

  This collection of papers is a combined initiative of Economic Policy Forum (EPF) member think tanks and is the result of two round-table discussions under the Regional Integration research stream.
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  Mineral rights, rents and resources in South Africa’s development narrative

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015

  South Africa is endowed with substantial subsoil mineral wealth, yet the development promise typically associated with this wealth has not been realised. Between 2001 and 2008 the South African mining industry contracted at a rate of 1% a year, while comparable mining jurisdictions grew at an average of 5% a year.1 This period marked the longest commodity price boom in recent history.
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  Penetrating the Asian market: a case study of trade barriers for South African exporters into Indonesia

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2015

  Since 2007, Asia has been the main trading partner for South Africa, in terms of total merchandised trade. Asia has been an important export market for South Africa’s trade-induced industrialisation strategy.
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  Unemployment and security challenges in Nigeria

  International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2013

  Unemployment is one of the most serious problems facing Nigeria like many other countries in the world. However, there is also a growing level of security challenges facing the country, which calls for serious concern. The rising level of unemployment in the country can be attributed for the in crease in security challenges in the country.
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  The Emerging Markets Symposium

  With more than half the world’s people and over 40% of its economy, Brazil, China, India, Russia and other emerging markets in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas are widely expected to be eco
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  Building resilience of SIDS through agricultural trade and agribusiness development

  Small Island Economies - CTA Brussels, 2014

  Small islands face a greater risk of marginalisation due to the combined adverse consequences of their small size, remoteness from large markets and high economic vulnerability to economic and natural shocks beyond domestic control. This reader gives an overview of the main challenges and opportunities for agribusiness development in SIDS.
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  Sectoral shifts, diversification, regional unemployment on the eve of revolution in Tunisia: a sequential spatial panel approach

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015

  This paper investigates how sectoral shifts and industry specialisation patterns have influenced Tunisian labour market performance in the recent past years.
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  Financial vulnerability and export dynamics

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015

  This study documents the implications of financial vulnerability for export diversification in developing economies. Financial crises, by increasing the incidence of sunk costs of entry into exporting, reduce firm export dynamics. Financially vulnerable exporters are not able to fully realise economies of scale in production and have little access to more sophisticated technologies.

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