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What you export matters : does it really?

Grancay, Martin; Grancay, Nora; Dudas, Tomas - In: Contemporary economics 9 (2015) 2, pp. 233-244

for economic growth. The authors developed an indicator of income level linked to the country’s exports they called EXPY … 2004 - 2013. We show that, in the aggregate, higher values of EXPY are connected with faster economic growth. However, the … between export sophistication and economic growth. As a result, we argue that EXPY is not a good predictor of future economic …

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Absorptive capacity and the impact of commodity terms of trade shocks in resource export-dependent economies

Terada Hagiwara, Akiko; Villaruel, Mai Lin C.; Edmonds, … - 2016

This paper investigates the role of “absorptive capacity” to manage unexpected shocks to their real economy, with a focus on small, open, natural resource-dependent economies. A quarterly panel data series for 45 countries is constructed, including 23 developing Asian countries for empirical...

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Relationship between Trade Liberalisation, Growth and Balance of Payments in Developing Countries : An Econometric Study

Parikh, Ashok K. - 2004

The objectives of this paper are to study the impact of liberalisation on trade deficits and current accounts of developing countries. It is expected that trade liberalisation would promote economic growth from the supply side by leading to a more efficient use of resources, by encouraging...

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Outward-orientation and development : are revisionists right

Srinivasan, Thirukodikaval N.; Bhagwati, Jagdish N. - 1999

The costs of import substitution (IS) as a strategy for industrialization, which was deemed synonymous with economic development by many development economists of the fifties and sixties, were shown to be substantial in the influential and nuanced studies of the seventies and eighties under the...

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Outward-Orientation and Development: Are Revisionists Right

Srinivasan, T. N.; Bhagwati, Jagdish - 1999

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Exceptions to the rule : countries/areas that had a growth in the value of their exports in the midst of the Great Depression

Schein, Andrew - In: Essays in economic & business history : the journal of … 40 (2022), pp. 44-63

This article presents a study of exports of 131 countries for the years 1928-1936. There are two important results. One, while world exports in current USD began to rebound from the collapse of trade during the Great Depression in 1933, world exports in constant US gold dollars decreased...

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Structural transformation and international trade : evidence from the China shock

Nedoncelle, Clément; Wolfersberger, Julien - 2023

How does international trade affect structural transformation in developing countries? We use data on sectoral allocation of labour and value-added in 46 developing economies over the period 1995-2017 and exploit for identification plausibly exogenous variation in manufacturing imports from...

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Price competition and the fallacy of composition in developing country exports of manufactures : estimates of short-run growth effects

Blecker, Robert A.; Razmi, Arslan - 2006 - Revised version

This paper studies whether intra-developing country price competition has significant effects on the short-run growth rates of developing countries that are specialized in manufactured exports. Regression estimates using the generalized method of moments (GMM) applied to annual panel data for 17...

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The Uruguay Round and Welfare in Some Distorted Agricultural Economies

Anderson, James E. - 2015

There is widespread concern about the effect of the Uruguay Round policy changes on world agricultural prices and consequently upon the welfare of developing countries. Assessing welfare changes with the standard terms of trade effect calculation can be misleading for distorted economies, since...

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Absorptive Capacity and the Impact of Commodity Terms of Trade Shocks in Resource Export-Dependent Economies

Terada Hagiwara, Akiko - 2016

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