The CORES project focuses on “measuring firms vulnerability in developing countries to the shock of Covid-19″. It is directed by Leila Baghdadi (ESSEC Tunis) and Mohamed Ali Marouani (UMR D&S, IRD and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), in…
There is much literature to support the view that export-ers (both developed and developing countries) pay higherwages than nonexporters. While this so-called export wagepremium has also been found to be prevalent in SouthAfrica, it has not been…
BACKGROUND: Exporting poses a challenge to the achievement of inclusive growth because there is a discernible wage inequality between exporting and non-exporting firms. The literature shows that exporting firms pay a wage premium relative to non-…
Background: Namibia is an open economy where international trade accounts for a greater
proportion of gross domestic product (GDP). Openness of the Namibian economy for the
period 2010 to 2018 has been on average 111% of GDP. The high level of…