TY  - JOUR
AU  - Redding, Stephen
AU  - Venables, Anthony J
TI  - Geography and Export Performance: External Market Access and Internal Supply Capacity
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 9637
PY  - 2003
Y2  - April 2003
DO  - 10.3386/w9637
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9637
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9637.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Stephen J. Redding
Department of Economics &
School of Public and International Affairs
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Tel: 609/258-4016
Fax: 609/258-6419
E-Mail: reddings@princeton.edu

Anthony Venables
Department of Economics
University of Oxford
Manor Road Building
Manor Road
Oxford OX1 3UQ, United Kingdom
and CEPR
E-Mail: tony.venables@economics.ox.ac.uk
M1  - published as Stephen Redding, Anthony Venables. "Geography and Export Performance: External Market Access and Internal Supply Capacity," in Robert E. Baldwin and L. Alan Winters, editors, "Challenges to Globalization: Analyzing the Economics" University of Chicago Press (2004)

AB  - This paper investigates the determinants of countries' export performance looking in particular at the role of international product market linkages.  We begin with a novel decomposition of the growth in countries' exports into the contribution from increases in external demand and from improved internal supply-side conditions.  Building on the results of this decomposition we move on to an econometric analysis of the determinants of export performance.  Results include the finding that poor external geography, poor internal geography, and poor institutional quality contribute in approximately equal measure to explaining Sub-Saharan Africa's poor export performance.
ER  -