01653cas a2200229 a 4500 AALejournalIMF015633 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 15.00 USD 9781589066670 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Gupta, Sanjeev. Sub-Saharan Africa : Forging New Trade Links with Asia / Sanjeev Gupta, Kevin Carey, Ulrich Jacoby. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007. 1 online resource (64 pages) <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 What is the impact on trade in sub-Saharan Africa of the recent rapid growth in China and other Asian countries, and the associated commodity price boom? This paper looks at how trading patterns (both destinations and composition) are changing in sub-Saharan Africa. Has the region managed to diversify the products it sells from commodities to manufactured goods? Has it expanded the range of countries to which it exports? And what about the import side? The time is ripe for sub-Saharan African countries to climb up the value chain of their commodity-based exports and/or achieve an export surge based on labor-intensive manufacturing. Mode of access: Internet Carey, Kevin. Jacoby, Ulrich. Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/books/058/06548-9781589066670-en/06548-9781589066670-en-book.xml IMF e-Library