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Analysis of Technology and Development. A Critical Review (2006)
Book Chapter
Deraniyagala, S. (2006). Analysis of Technology and Development. A Critical Review. In K. S. Jomo, & B. Fine (Eds.), The New Development Economics. After the Washington Consensus (123-143). Tulika Books and Zed Books

Comparative and Pooled Analysis of the Three Countries (1999)
Book Chapter
Deraniyagala, S. (1999). Comparative and Pooled Analysis of the Three Countries. In S. Lall (Ed.), The Technological Response to Import Liberalisation in Sub-Saharan Africa (207-224). Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14852-3_6

This chapter presents a comparative analysis of technology upgrading and firm performance in the three countries as a group, using a pooled sample of 130 firms for which relevant data are available. It seeks to identify common factors that determine... Read More about Comparative and Pooled Analysis of the Three Countries.

Trade Liberalisation, Firm Performance and Technology Upgrading in Tanzania (1999)
Book Chapter
Deraniyagala, S., & Semboja, H. H. H. (1999). Trade Liberalisation, Firm Performance and Technology Upgrading in Tanzania. In S. Lall (Ed.), The Technological Response to Import Liberalisation in Sub-Saharan Africa (112-147). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14852-3_4

After nearly two decades of trade restrictions, Tanzania launched a series of trade liberalization measures in the mid 1980s. Economic and manufacturing growth, which had collapsed in the ‘crisis years’ prior to liberalization, recovered modestly the... Read More about Trade Liberalisation, Firm Performance and Technology Upgrading in Tanzania.