01855cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF001969 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451851298 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Pattillo, Catherine. Export Orientation and Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa / Catherine Pattillo, Taye Mengistae. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002. 1 online resource (30 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Analysis of firm-level panel data from three sub-Saharan African economies shows that exporting manufacturers have a total factor productivity premium of 11-28 percent. The data do not allow testing of whether these premiums are caused by selection of more efficient producers into exporting or by learning-by-exporting. By thinking about the mechanisms behind selectivity and learning, however, our finding of higher premiums for direct exporters and exporters to outside Africa could be interpreted as being consistent with learning-by-exporting effects. However, if learning-by-exporting is indeed present in the data, we cannot disentangle its effect on productivity from those of more traditionally recognized channels of international technology diffusion. Mode of access: Internet Mengistae, Taye. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/089 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2002/089/001.2002.issue-089-en.xml IMF e-Library