Survey of the Literature on Successful Strategies and Practices for Export Promotion by Developing Countries

Export promotion policies refer to the set of foreign trade policies targeted to exports enhancement. The aim of the present paper is reviewing the wide experience collected by the various countries in the past. Our purpose is two-fold. On the one side, our contribution aims at identifying the best practices so far and provide policy guidelines for the future. On the other, it highlights the policy, institutional and economic complementarities that make successful stories context-specific and warn against “one size fits all policy.”