Author: Alasdair I. MacBeanPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1966 [i.e. 1967]
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Export Instability and Economic Development
Author: Alasdair I. MacBeanPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1966 [i.e. 1967]
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Exports, Trade Policy and Economic Growth in Eras of Globalization
Author: Edward M. FeaselPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351864815
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This book provides an excellent resource for understanding the forces in international trade liberalization over two centuries that have brought us to this point, where the successes, setbacks and the countervailing forces now vie for the public's mind and support: the outcome of which will determine the future progress of increased globalization, or lack thereof. The book also examines whether trade policy has indeed promoted exports in the vast number of countries which increasingly look to trade agreements to gain a competitive edge, and to what extent export-driven growth has been an important force in advancing economic development around the world. In doing so, the book examines one of the most controversial issues in economic development: the promotion and significance of export-led growth.
Export Growth in Latin America
Author: Carla MacarioPublisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9781555877590
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Although Latin American and Caribbean countries have assigned a high priority to increasing exports, export performance in most cases remains deficient. This work investigates why this is so, identifying the policies that determine successes and failures in Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico.
Breaking Into New Markets
Author: Richard NewfarmerPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821376386
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
International trade in 2009 is projected to contract for the first time since 1982. As a result, export diversifi cation has gained new urgency as one way of using exports to recover lost growth momentum. Moreover, diversifi cation is central to reducing income volatility and sustaining high growth rates, which are especially important for countries with large populations living in poverty. In the 1950s, countries became concerned that their dependence on primary products would lead to steady falls in the purchasing power of primary exports and thus slow growth. A major policy objective of developing countries since that time has been to diversify out of primary products into manufactures. Although some nations have been at least partially successful, many low-income countries remain dependent on a narrow range of primary products. 'Breaking Into New Markets' argues for a comprehensive view of diversifi cation. It explores new thinking and evidence about export diversifi cation and elaborates on policies for its promotion. These policies span tariffs and taxes, services, and government activities to help fi rms take advantage of global opportunities. The book is a compilation of chapters written as short, policy-focused pieces. Many digest longer, more academic papers in an effort to make the information accessible to a larger policy and nontechnical audience. In that sense, the book is a policy primer on what export diversifi cation can and cannot do for growth and how to make diversifi cation happen. Intelligently designed policies that effi ciently address the obstacles to export growth are critical for overall economic growth and poverty reduction. This book offers insights useful to policy makers and practitioners as they embark on efforts to design new programs of competitiveness in their trade strategies.
Exports and economic growth of developing countries
Author: Alfred MaizelsOn exports and economic growth further evidence
Author: Export Instability and Economic Development
Author: Alasdair MacbeanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136877665
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
When this work was first published in 1966, there was much interest in various types of commodity agreements and compensatory financing as methods of reducing the effects of export fluctuations on the economies of developing countries. The book concluded that short term fluctuations in export earnings, though perhaps important for some countries, did not appear to be the general problem that had been assumed. If correct, it would suggest that any measures should be carefully designed to fit the situations of countries that were affected and be subjected to cost-benefit analysis. This led to many published and unpublished studies on the issues: some supported, others contradicted the book’s conclusions. The data available now are vastly greater and probably more accurate than pre-1966. However, the work and the issues it raised remain important because most schemes proposed to reduce export instability would be costly and likely to divert resources from uses more obviously aimed at raising economic development in most developing countries.
Exports, Inflation, and Growth
Author: Thorvaldur GylfasonPublisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1451854137
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
This paper identifies some of the main determinants of exports and economic growth in cross-sectional data from the World Bank, covering 160 countries in the period 1985-1994. First, the linkages between the propensity to export and population, per capita income, agriculture, primary exports, and inflation are studied by statistical methods. Then, the relationship between economic growth and some of the above-mentioned determinants of exports and investment are scrutinized the same way. The main conclusion is that, in the period under review, high inflation and an abundance of natural resources tended to be associated with low exports and slow growth.
Comparative Advantage, Trade Policy and Economic Development
Author: Bela BalassaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commercial policy
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Commodity Exports and Economic Development
Author: Francis Gerard AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The commodity problem, development goals, and policies; Review of previous studies of the impact of the commodity problem on developing-country goal attainment; An integrated econometric approach to the commodity problem and economic development - preview, country and commodity selection, and country sketches; Macroeconometric models for project countries; Microeconometric models of the primary-commodity-producing sectors; Econometric models of international commodity markets; The impact of fluctuations in international commodity markets on goal attainment in developing countries; The impact of secular movements in international commodity markets on goal attainment in developing countries; Policy responses to the commodity problem; The commodity problem, goal attainment, and policies in developing countries: conclusions.