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A new brand platform from the Crown corporation is showing Canadian companies that the jump to new markets is easier than they think.

Jaime de Melo, Alberto Portugal-Perez Economists do not agree on whether preferential access to foreign markets can foster industrial development, particularly in Africa. Some see it as a more effective means than conventional infant industry protection “to transport a bit of the economic miracle from China to Africa” (Collier and Venables 2007). The benefits of preferential access are conditional on competing successfully in foreign markets, rather than in less contested domestic markets. ...