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S SILK ROAD
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CHINA AND INDIA
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S NEW ECONOMIC FRONTIER
Centre de Recherches Economiques Appliques (CREA) (Senegal),
Emerging Market Focus (Pty) Ltd. (South Africa, Economic and Social
Research Foundation (Tanzania, and Institute of Statistical,
Social andEconomic Research (ISSER) (Ghana) implemented the firm-level survey for this study in their respective countries using the instrument developed by the World Bank team.
The team is most grateful for the time devoted by the CEOs of the various companies that participated in the business case studies carried out in
May 2006 in Accra, Dakar, Johannesburg, and Dares Salaam.
Administrative support was provided by Yanick Brierre, Ann Karasanyi,
and Kenneth Omondi. Thanks
are due to Delfin Sia Go, Gozde Isik, and
Ann Karasanyi, and other colleagues in the respective World Bank country offices for efficiently and enthusiastically supporting the business case study mission. In conducting the survey and the business case studies in
Ghana, Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania, the team also received valuable assistance from the World Bank
staff based in those countries, including Fatim Diop Bathily, Kofi Boateng Agyen, Jemima Harlley, Anna Jacob,
Evelyne Kapya, and Paula M. Lamptey.
A team at Grammarians, Inc,
composed of Mellen Candage, Kate Sullivan, Joanne Endres, Carol Levie, Sherri Brown, and Winfield Swanson conducted editing,
typesetting, and indexing of the book. The cover design was done by Debra Naylor and her team at Naylor Design, Inc. Paola Scal- abrin and Richard Crabbe of the World Bank Office of Publisher coordinated final quality control and printing.
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ACP
Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific
AGOA
African Growth and Opportunity Act
ATI
Africa
Trade Insurance AgencyAVE
ad valorem equivalent
BCSs
Business Case Studies
BIT
bilateral investment treaty
CBU
complete-build-up
CEMAC
Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa
CII
Confederation of Indian Industry
CIS
Commonwealth
of Independent StatesCKD
complete-knock-down
COMESA
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
DFID
United Kingdom Department for International Development
DFIZ
Dakar Free Industrial Zone
DOT
Direction of Trade Statistics
DTC
Diamond Trading Company
DTIS
Diagnostic
Trade Integration StudyDTT
double taxation treaty
EAC
East African Community
EBA
Everything But Arms
EBID
ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development
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