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Alexis Habiyaremye
School of Economics, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa

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Journal article
Published: 16 August 2021 in Sustainability
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With the impending threat of global climate change, the past decades have witnessed an increasing recognition of the potential contribution of indigenous knowledge to tackling global challenges of environmental sustainability. In this study, we used a qualitative analysis of data collected in September 2018 from key informant interviews and focus group discussion sessions in the Baduy communities in western Java to examine how their swidden cultivation, pest control and rice preservation techniques contribute to strengthening the sustainability of their livelihoods. The study also examines the potential for knowledge sharing between Baduy indigenous knowledge holders and outside scientific communities for mutual enhancement. Our analysis of collected data indicates that while the Baduy are open to sharing their ecological knowledge with outsiders for the sake of a greater environment protection, they remain wary of adopting external knowledge sources, as these external influences constitute a threat of disruption to their own epistemic system and way of life.

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Alexis Habiyaremye; Leeja Korina. Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Ecological Pest Control and Post-Harvest Rice Conservation Techniques: Sustainability Lessons from Baduy Communities. Sustainability 2021, 13, 9148 .

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Alexis Habiyaremye, Leeja Korina. Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Ecological Pest Control and Post-Harvest Rice Conservation Techniques: Sustainability Lessons from Baduy Communities. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (16):9148.

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Alexis Habiyaremye; Leeja Korina. 2021. "Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Ecological Pest Control and Post-Harvest Rice Conservation Techniques: Sustainability Lessons from Baduy Communities." Sustainability 13, no. 16: 9148.

Journal article
Published: 16 April 2021 in The European Journal of Development Research
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For the economic recovery in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic, South Africa announced the launch of an ambitious ZAR 2.3 trillion infrastructure investment plan. This paper uses a simplified yet reliable method to analyse the potential growth and employment effects of this stimulus plan. Based on lower and upper bound values of the country’s estimated fiscal multipliers, we built a scenario prediction template with which output and employment expansion can be analysed within specified constraints on the fiscal space and the country’s economic dynamics. Our estimation model suggests that with a 50% state participation in the recovery investment, the best case scenario of fiscal stimulation would enable the economy to create 2.23 million jobs over the first 5 years of the stimulus investments (of which 1.74 million would be attributed to the stimulus effect), while the more realistic scenario based of the lower bound value of the fiscal multiplier with only 30% state participation predicts the creation of 1.67 million additional jobs, of which 1.18 million would be attributable to the stimulus. Our analysis also suggests that investing in the types of infrastructure that shift the production technology could change the long-term growth trajectory, while focusing on employment-intensive investment may only generate temporary effects.

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Alexis Habiyaremye; Olebogeng Molewa; Pelontle Lekomanyane. Estimating Employment Gains of the Proposed Infrastructure Stimulus Plan in Post-Covid-19 South Africa. The European Journal of Development Research 2021, 1 -28.

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Alexis Habiyaremye, Olebogeng Molewa, Pelontle Lekomanyane. Estimating Employment Gains of the Proposed Infrastructure Stimulus Plan in Post-Covid-19 South Africa. The European Journal of Development Research. 2021; ():1-28.

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Alexis Habiyaremye; Olebogeng Molewa; Pelontle Lekomanyane. 2021. "Estimating Employment Gains of the Proposed Infrastructure Stimulus Plan in Post-Covid-19 South Africa." The European Journal of Development Research , no. : 1-28.

Journal article
Published: 12 February 2021 in Sustainability
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Constraints imposed by the shrinking resources and the climate change dynamics necessitate a behavioral change to increase knowledge exchange and optimize resource utilization. Existing entrepreneurship and innovation practices are therefore undergoing transformation to adapt production systems to the post-COVID-19 reality of increased risks of calamities within a context of shrinking resources. This paper uses a knowledge-centered crisis management framework to examine how enhanced knowledge sharing through co-operative learning can be applied to induce higher innovation performance and more efficient resource utilization structures during crises comparable to the current pandemic. Using the collaborative learning experiences of a small enterprise producing ecological fertilizers, this study was able to link crisis resilience enhancement to increased knowledge exchange between business entities connected through the agro-ecological value chain. New insights generated through the co-learning process were found to constitute a key input for strengthening the required capability endowments that enable the organization and its partners to weather the COVID-19 crisis and lay the foundation for the sustainability of post-COVID-19 operations.

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Alexis Habiyaremye. Co-Operative Learning and Resilience to COVID-19 in a Small-Sized South African Enterprise. Sustainability 2021, 13, 1976 .

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Alexis Habiyaremye. Co-Operative Learning and Resilience to COVID-19 in a Small-Sized South African Enterprise. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (4):1976.

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Alexis Habiyaremye. 2021. "Co-Operative Learning and Resilience to COVID-19 in a Small-Sized South African Enterprise." Sustainability 13, no. 4: 1976.

Journal article
Published: 07 September 2020 in Regional Studies
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Ivan Turok; Alexis Habiyaremye. Territorial collaboration: a novel way to spread prosperity. Regional Studies 2020, 54, 1776 -1786.

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Ivan Turok, Alexis Habiyaremye. Territorial collaboration: a novel way to spread prosperity. Regional Studies. 2020; 54 (12):1776-1786.

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Ivan Turok; Alexis Habiyaremye. 2020. "Territorial collaboration: a novel way to spread prosperity." Regional Studies 54, no. 12: 1776-1786.

Journal article
Published: 29 August 2020 in Environmental Science & Policy
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Because of its long experience with water scarcity, South Africa has built a highly active research and innovation capacity in the water sector, which is spearheaded by the Water Research Commission (WRC). As a result, South African scientists have been among the significant contributors to new knowledge creation in the water innovation domain, especially in water treatment technologies. This innovation dynamism has however not been translated into a large-scale harnessing of technological innovations to avert the looming threat of water shortage. This paper combines innovation diffusion theory with the technology maturation framework to explore the main factors that help explain the pace of innovation diffusion in the South African water sector. Data from key informant interview analysis as well as available secondary sources indicate that financing constraints and technical validation difficulties are among the main hurdles limiting the ability of innovators to scale up their inventions for commercialisation. Adoption costs and lack of municipal support budget are the most important factors that limit the ability of low income rural households to adopt water innovations. Policy measures to support diffusion strategies are necessary to ensure that innovators have the means to overcome the multiple diffusion obstacles that they are confronted with.

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Alexis Habiyaremye. Water innovation in South Africa: Mapping innovation successes and diffusion constraints. Environmental Science & Policy 2020, 114, 217 -229.

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Alexis Habiyaremye. Water innovation in South Africa: Mapping innovation successes and diffusion constraints. Environmental Science & Policy. 2020; 114 ():217-229.

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Alexis Habiyaremye. 2020. "Water innovation in South Africa: Mapping innovation successes and diffusion constraints." Environmental Science & Policy 114, no. : 217-229.

Chapter
Published: 24 June 2020 in The Palgrave Handbook of African Political Economy
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Africa is abundantly endowed with oil and mineral resources but paradoxically remains the poorest continent. Despite being home to approximately 30 percent of the earth’s remaining mineral resource deposits, however, the continent has hitherto failed to transform this coveted advantage into economic development for its populations. Instead of bringing prosperity, the exploitation of natural resources has often been a source of violent conflicts and environment degradation in various corners of the continent, often by the influence of powerful foreign corporations. Whereas the resource curse literature has suggested economic and social factors to explain this paradox of plenty, the role played by foreign corporations in the nexus between the exploitation of African resources and poor economic performance has been virtually absent from the academic debate. This chapter explores the nexus between resource abundance and poor economic performance in various resource-rich African countries in light of the influence of foreign powers and their corporations on violent conflicts and capital flight.

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Alexis Habiyaremye. Natural Resource Abundance: A Hidden Drag on Africa’s Development? The Palgrave Handbook of African Political Economy 2020, 699 -723.

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Alexis Habiyaremye. Natural Resource Abundance: A Hidden Drag on Africa’s Development? The Palgrave Handbook of African Political Economy. 2020; ():699-723.

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Alexis Habiyaremye. 2020. "Natural Resource Abundance: A Hidden Drag on Africa’s Development?" The Palgrave Handbook of African Political Economy , no. : 699-723.

Research article
Published: 21 June 2019 in Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit
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Confronted with a sluggish growth and very high rates of rural unemployment, South Africa has put local beneficiation at the core of its strategy for employment-intensive re-industrialisation. Its industrial policy action plan identified agro-processing as one of the priority areas for this strategy because of its potential employment multiplier in rural areas. Despite the appeal of its industrialisation potential, beneficiation strategy is often contested and its effectiveness as a viable engine of industrialisation in African countries is recurrently questioned. This paper presents an empirical evaluation of the income and employment effects of an agro-processing beneficiation programme launched by the Department of Science and Technology for the processing of abundant mango harvest in the area of Tzaneen in Limpopo province. Using inverse probability weighting estimation on a sample of 385 households residing in and around the beneficiation target area, we find clear positive income effects of the agro-processing project for the beneficiary households. The success of this project in the domestic and international agro-processing markets suggests that local beneficiation strategy can provide a sound basis for rural industrialisation if adequately prepared.

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Alexis Habiyaremye; Evans Mupela. How effective is local beneficiation policy in enhancing rural income and employment? The case of agro-processing beneficiation in Tzaneen, South Africa. Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit 2019, 34, 329 -345.

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Alexis Habiyaremye, Evans Mupela. How effective is local beneficiation policy in enhancing rural income and employment? The case of agro-processing beneficiation in Tzaneen, South Africa. Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit. 2019; 34 (4):329-345.

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Alexis Habiyaremye; Evans Mupela. 2019. "How effective is local beneficiation policy in enhancing rural income and employment? The case of agro-processing beneficiation in Tzaneen, South Africa." Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit 34, no. 4: 329-345.

Introduction
Published: 02 May 2019 in Innovation and Development
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Innovation is increasingly recognized as a potent policy tool for addressing the structural problems that characterize poverty in marginalized rural communities. In what ways should governments in developing countries be involved in supporting innovation to achieve inclusive development objectives? This special issue brings together key insights from different facets of rural transformation programmes in the global South, with the view to shed light on the nature and outcomes of state involvement. The contributions to this volume highlight three domains in which the state plays a pivotal role in spurring inclusive rural transformation: promoting agricultural innovation in Algeria and Vietnam, supporting rural capacity building in South Africa and Peru, and the provision of pro-poor innovations for rural social development in India and Argentina. In all three domains, government support coupled with greater participation of local community members in the planning and implementation of innovative projects proved to produce greater potential for success. The contributions also emphasize the pivotal role that the state must play in supporting local capability building and bridging knowledge gaps between innovation producers and rural user communities, in order to facilitate local absorption of external technological solutions.

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Alexis Habiyaremye; Glenda Kruss; Irma Booyens. Innovation for inclusive rural transformation: the role of the state. Innovation and Development 2019, 10, 155 -168.

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Alexis Habiyaremye, Glenda Kruss, Irma Booyens. Innovation for inclusive rural transformation: the role of the state. Innovation and Development. 2019; 10 (2):155-168.

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Alexis Habiyaremye; Glenda Kruss; Irma Booyens. 2019. "Innovation for inclusive rural transformation: the role of the state." Innovation and Development 10, no. 2: 155-168.

Articles
Published: 20 February 2019 in Innovation and Development
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The purpose of this paper is to explore how the co-learning methodology, inherent in the Living Labs approach, has been deployed to stimulate knowledge exchange and absorption in marginalised rural communities in South Africa and empower them to participate in the innovation process. Having one of the world's highest rates of income and wealth inequality, South African has sought to harness the power of knowledge and rural innovation as a means to foster its structural transformation. The knowledge asymmetry between specialised knowledge producers and the impoverished target users has however hindered the necessary knowledge exchange for the diffusion of technological solutions in the marginalised rural and peri-urban communities. In order to overcome the constraints of this knowledge asymmetry, the government supported user capacity building with the Living Labs approach for tackling rural community challenges with innovative solutions. This paper uses three examples of successful innovation co-creation to illustrate how transformative change can be achieved through co-learning between living labs researchers and user communities. The corresponding experiences of knowledge-co-creation in South African Living Labs highlight the role of government support for capacity building in the co-learning approach targeted to inclusive transformation of the livelihoods of marginalised communities.

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Alexis Habiyaremye. Knowledge exchange and innovation co-creation in living labs projects in South Africa. Innovation and Development 2019, 10, 207 -222.

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Alexis Habiyaremye. Knowledge exchange and innovation co-creation in living labs projects in South Africa. Innovation and Development. 2019; 10 (2):207-222.

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Alexis Habiyaremye. 2019. "Knowledge exchange and innovation co-creation in living labs projects in South Africa." Innovation and Development 10, no. 2: 207-222.

Journal article
Published: 03 August 2018 in Development Southern Africa
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Alexis Habiyaremye. Enhancing productive capabilities through intra-regional trade and cross-border investments in Southern Africa. Development Southern Africa 2018, 36, 409 -425.

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Alexis Habiyaremye. Enhancing productive capabilities through intra-regional trade and cross-border investments in Southern Africa. Development Southern Africa. 2018; 36 (4):409-425.

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Alexis Habiyaremye. 2018. "Enhancing productive capabilities through intra-regional trade and cross-border investments in Southern Africa." Development Southern Africa 36, no. 4: 409-425.

Chapter
Published: 27 July 2018 in Selected Themes in African Political Studies
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The tacit nature of technological knowledge often renders face-to-face interactions a necessity for technology to diffuse because knowledge circulates best locally (Kesidou and Szirmai 2008). It is through those interactions that tacit knowledge can be translated into explicit, usable new knowledge. This explains why geographic proximity is important for technological learning by facilitating direct interactions and knowledge diffusion. Thanks to its impressive diamond deposits and its geographical proximity with the South African economy, Botswana is thus well poised to benefit from mastering and applying technologies that already exist in its southern neighbour. Botswana’s geographic and economic proximity with South Africa is thus one of its most important winning cards for a successful technological catch-up and long term-growth.

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Alexis Habiyaremye. Regional Integration and Knowledge Flows: Effect on Manufacturing Productivity in Southern Africa. Selected Themes in African Political Studies 2018, 213 -224.

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Alexis Habiyaremye. Regional Integration and Knowledge Flows: Effect on Manufacturing Productivity in Southern Africa. Selected Themes in African Political Studies. 2018; ():213-224.

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Alexis Habiyaremye. 2018. "Regional Integration and Knowledge Flows: Effect on Manufacturing Productivity in Southern Africa." Selected Themes in African Political Studies , no. : 213-224.

Article
Published: 14 September 2017 in Innovation
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Using data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS), this article investigates how foreign firms’ involvement in corruption practices affects the innovation behaviour and performance of their direct competitors in transition economies of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. By unbundling corruption practices into grand and petty corruption transactions, this paper contributes to deepening the analysis of the ‘grease the wheels’ versus the ‘sand the wheels’ effects of corruption on innovation performance. Our empirical results indicate that grand corruption stifles the propensity of firms in the same line of business to conduct R&D activities and to bring new or upgraded products and services to the market, whereas petty corruption of foreign firms tends to foster major innovations in the domestic market. Domestic firms’ involvement in petty corruption appears to be detrimental to innovation efforts and incremental innovation, but not to major innovation.

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Alexis Habiyaremye; Wladimir Raymond. How do foreign firms’ corruption practices affect innovation performance in host countries? Industry-level evidence from transition economies. Innovation 2017, 20, 18 -41.

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Alexis Habiyaremye, Wladimir Raymond. How do foreign firms’ corruption practices affect innovation performance in host countries? Industry-level evidence from transition economies. Innovation. 2017; 20 (1):18-41.

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Alexis Habiyaremye; Wladimir Raymond. 2017. "How do foreign firms’ corruption practices affect innovation performance in host countries? Industry-level evidence from transition economies." Innovation 20, no. 1: 18-41.

Articles
Published: 03 July 2017 in Agrekon
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The adoption of an agricultural technology is often seen as a way to overcome the constraints imposed by the existing resources and/or production methods. As a small landlocked country, Rwanda sought to develop the capability to produce silk, a high value-to-volume ratio product, as a means to overcome the constraints of high transportation cost of exports. Sericulture was also seen as a handy strategy to boost rural farmer income by putting previously less productive land to use for mulberry plantations. Because sericulture was not introduced randomly, this study relied on observational data and applied propensity score matching to estimate its income and poverty reduction effects in six rural districts. The results indicate that sericulture adoption had beneficial effects both on increasing income and reducing poverty. The strengthening of related skills development and the supporting infrastructure remains crucial for the sericulture to successfully diffuse and yield economic benefits commensurate with its potential.

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Alexis Habiyaremye. Estimating the impact of sericulture adoption on farmer income in Rwanda: an application of propensity score matching. Agrekon 2017, 56, 296 -311.

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Alexis Habiyaremye. Estimating the impact of sericulture adoption on farmer income in Rwanda: an application of propensity score matching. Agrekon. 2017; 56 (3):296-311.

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Alexis Habiyaremye. 2017. "Estimating the impact of sericulture adoption on farmer income in Rwanda: an application of propensity score matching." Agrekon 56, no. 3: 296-311.

Journal article
Published: 01 June 2016 in Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
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Alexis Habiyaremye. Is Sino-African trade exacerbating resource dependence in Africa? Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 2016, 37, 1 -12.

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Alexis Habiyaremye. Is Sino-African trade exacerbating resource dependence in Africa? Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. 2016; 37 ():1-12.

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Alexis Habiyaremye. 2016. "Is Sino-African trade exacerbating resource dependence in Africa?" Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 37, no. : 1-12.

Journal article
Published: 01 December 2013 in African Development Review
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Alexis Habiyaremye. ‘Angola‐mode’ Trade Deals and the Awakening of African Lion Economies. African Development Review 2013, 25, 636 -647.

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Alexis Habiyaremye. ‘Angola‐mode’ Trade Deals and the Awakening of African Lion Economies. African Development Review. 2013; 25 (4):636-647.

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Alexis Habiyaremye. 2013. "‘Angola‐mode’ Trade Deals and the Awakening of African Lion Economies." African Development Review 25, no. 4: 636-647.

Journal article
Published: 20 June 2013 in South African Journal of Economics
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Alexis Habiyaremye. Imported Capital Goods and Manufacturing Productivity: Evidence from Botswana's Manufacturing Sector. South African Journal of Economics 2013, 81, 581 -604.

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Alexis Habiyaremye. Imported Capital Goods and Manufacturing Productivity: Evidence from Botswana's Manufacturing Sector. South African Journal of Economics. 2013; 81 (4):581-604.

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Alexis Habiyaremye. 2013. "Imported Capital Goods and Manufacturing Productivity: Evidence from Botswana's Manufacturing Sector." South African Journal of Economics 81, no. 4: 581-604.

Preprint
Published: 01 January 2013
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In this paper, we examine how transnational corruption affects host country firms' innovation behaviour and performance in transition economies of Eastern Europe and Central and Western Asia. Using firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey, we show that the involvement of foreign firms in corruption practices reduces the propensity of firms in host countries to invest in research and development and harms their ability to improve their existing products and services. Using a simultaneousequations recursive model and controlling for various innovation determinants, we also show that the reduction in innovation effort ultimately also hurts the host country's long-term ability to successfully bring new products on the market through indirect effects.

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Alexis Habiyaremye; Wladimir Raymond. Transnational corruption and innovation in transition economies. 2013, 1 .

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Alexis Habiyaremye, Wladimir Raymond. Transnational corruption and innovation in transition economies. . 2013; ():1.

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Alexis Habiyaremye; Wladimir Raymond. 2013. "Transnational corruption and innovation in transition economies." , no. : 1.

Original articles
Published: 01 March 2012 in Applied Economics
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In this article, we combine the export led and import led growth hypotheses in a growth model in which the importation of foreign capital goods and the demand elasticities of own export products explain the growth opportunities and the technical progress of developing countries. This model, based on imported capital goods, uses Mauritius’ data on capital investment, employment, export partners’ growth and terms of trade to estimate price and income elasticities of export demand, total factor productivity growth and economies of scale. These elasticities are then used to assess how the growth in export partners’ income is converted into domestic growth. The implications of the presence of low or high export demand elasticities are discussed by relating them to various strands of trade and growth literature. Based on the results of this estimation, we also calculate steady state growth rates, engine and handmaiden effects of growth as well as the dynamic steady state gains from trade for this latecomer export economy. The implications of steady state results are also discussed in the light of the Mauritian employment and growth perspectives.

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Alexis Habiyaremye; Thomas H. W. Ziesemer. Export demand elasticities and productivity as determinants of growth: estimates for Mauritius. Applied Economics 2012, 44, 1143 -1158.

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Alexis Habiyaremye, Thomas H. W. Ziesemer. Export demand elasticities and productivity as determinants of growth: estimates for Mauritius. Applied Economics. 2012; 44 (9):1143-1158.

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Alexis Habiyaremye; Thomas H. W. Ziesemer. 2012. "Export demand elasticities and productivity as determinants of growth: estimates for Mauritius." Applied Economics 44, no. 9: 1143-1158.

Book chapter
Published: 01 May 2011 in Aftermath
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Alexis Habiyaremye; Luc Soete. The Global Financial Crisis and Africa’s “Immiserizing Wealth”. Aftermath 2011, 165 -180.

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Alexis Habiyaremye, Luc Soete. The Global Financial Crisis and Africa’s “Immiserizing Wealth”. Aftermath. 2011; ():165-180.

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Alexis Habiyaremye; Luc Soete. 2011. "The Global Financial Crisis and Africa’s “Immiserizing Wealth”." Aftermath , no. : 165-180.

Phd abstracts
Published: 01 April 2011 in Innovation and Development
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Alexis Habiyaremye. From primary commodity dependence to diversification and growth: absorptive capacity and technological catch up in Botswana and Mauritius. Innovation and Development 2011, 1, 161 -162.

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Alexis Habiyaremye. From primary commodity dependence to diversification and growth: absorptive capacity and technological catch up in Botswana and Mauritius. Innovation and Development. 2011; 1 (1):161-162.

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Alexis Habiyaremye. 2011. "From primary commodity dependence to diversification and growth: absorptive capacity and technological catch up in Botswana and Mauritius." Innovation and Development 1, no. 1: 161-162.