| dc.contributor.author | Mwagura, Joseph | |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis uses new measures of value added trade for agricultural exports which originate from Sub-Sahara African (SSA) countries and go to the United States of America (U.S.A.). First, the impact of the African Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA) on SSA’s domestic value-added exports is assessed by using a sectoral structural gravity model. The study then evaluates the AGOA’s effect on the extensive margin and intensive margin of US-SSA value added trade using a Helpman, Melitz, and Rubinstein (2008) (HMR) two-step procedure model. The empirical results show that AGOA has had an insignificant impact on SSA’s agricultural domestic value-added exports to the U.S.A. In addition, being an AGOA recipient does not seem to affect a recipient’s decision to export domestic value-added agricultural products and has had an insignificant impact on the volume of agricultural domestic value-added exports to the U.S.A. | en_US |
| dc.publisher | North Dakota State University | en_US |
| dc.rights | NDSU policy 190.6.2 | en_US |
| dc.title | The Impact of the African Growth and Opportunity Act on Sub-Sahara African Value-Added Agricultural Exports | en_US |
| dc.type | Master's Paper | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-14T19:34:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-09-14T19:34:53Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10365/31529 | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf | en_US |
| ndsu.degree | Master of Science (MS) | en_US |
| ndsu.college | Agriculture, Food Systems and Natural Resources | en_US |
| ndsu.department | Agribusiness and Applied Economics | en_US |
| ndsu.program | Agribusiness and Applied Economics | en_US |
| ndsu.advisor | Sharma, Anupa | |
