, I provide evidence that export restrictions on industrial raw materials upstream help promote manufacturing exports …This paper shows both theoretically and empirically how raw material rich countries use export restrictions upstream to … give manufacturing sectors downstream a competitive advantage. For young and relatively small industries this can be seen …

The past few years of have reinvigorated interest in the manufacturing and service sectors of developing economies …. Several developing economies have had a manufacturing-led growth, especially displayed in the case of the South-East Asian … manufacturing and service production and exports in developing economies. We analyze said determinants over 130 countries (including …