Pathways to African export sustainability / (Record no. 4506)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20210811112732.0 |
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| 007 - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION FIXED FIELD--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
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| fixed length control field | 130109s2012 xx 000 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 2012537005 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0821395599 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780821395592 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER | |
| System control number | (The World Bank)17584982 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | DLC |
| Transcribing agency | DLC |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE | |
| Authentication code | pcc |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Pathways to African export sustainability / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Paul Brenton, Olivier Cadot, and Martha Denisse Pierola. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Washington : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | World Bank, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2012. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xiv, 122 pages : |
| Other physical details | illustrations ; |
| Dimensions | 23 cm. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 347 ## - DIGITAL FILE CHARACTERISTICS | |
| File type | data file |
| Source | rda |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Directions in development. Trade |
| 520 3# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | African exporters suffer from low survival rates on international markets. They fail more often than others, incurring time and again the setup costs involved in starting new relationships. This high churning is a source of waste, uncertainty, and discouragement. However, this trend is not inevitable. The high "infant mortality" of African exports is largely explained by Africa's low-income business environment and, once properly benchmarked, Africa's performance in terms of exporter failure is no outlier. Moreover, African exporters show vigorous entrepreneurship, with high entry rates into new products and markets despite formidable hurdles created by poor infrastructure, landlocked boundaries for some, and limited access to major sea routes for others. African exporters experiment a lot, and they frequently pay the price of failure. What matters for policy is how to ensure that viable ventures survive. Research carried out for this book demonstrates that governments can and should help to reduce the rate of failure of African export ventures through a mixture of improvements in the business environment, as well as well-targeted proactive interventions. The business environment can be made more conducive to sustainable export entrepreneurship through traditional policy prescriptions such as reducing transportation costs, facilitating trade through better technology and workflow in border management, improving the effectiveness of banking regulations to ensure the availability of trade finance, and striving for regulatory simplicity and coherence. In addition, governments can help leverage synergies between exporters. Original research featured in this book shows that African exporters improve each other's chances of survival when a critical mass of them penetrates a given market together. They also benefit from diaspora presence in destination markets. With adequate donor support and private-sector engagement, export-promotion agencies and technical-assistance programs can help leverage those synergies. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on print version record. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Africa |
| General subdivision | Commerce. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 20421 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Africa |
| General subdivision | Commercial policy. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 20422 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Africa |
| General subdivision | Economic integration. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 20423 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Exports |
| Geographic subdivision | Africa. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 20424 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Foreign trade promotion |
| Geographic subdivision | Africa. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 20425 |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Brenton, Paul. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 20426 |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Cadot, Olivier. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 20427 |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Pierola, Martha Denisse. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 20428 |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Main entry heading | Print Version: |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780821395592 |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). |
| Name of part/section of a work | Trade. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 20429 |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | World Bank e-Library. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 20430 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-0-8213-9559-2">http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-0-8213-9559-2</a> |
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