[PDF] Exports Imports And Economic Growth In Developing Countries eBook

Author : Alasdair Macbean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 31,98 MB
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136877665

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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 This led to many published and unpublished studies on the issues: some supported, others contradicted the book’s conclusions.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.

Author : Rob Vos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 37,31 MB
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135987017

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The issue of the pros and cons of free trade from the point of view of developing countries refuses to dissipate, and in Latin America, the debate rages most fiercely. Argentina is still licking its wounds after a catastrophic past five years, and Brazil and others have hardened their line – even going so far as to initiate the influential new G20 group of the most powerful LDCs. Who Gains from Free Trade examines the extent to which trade reforms have been an important source of the slowdown of economic growth, rising inequality and rising poverty as observed in many parts of the region. This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of this important topic, utilizing: research based on sixteen country narratives of policy reform and economic performance rigorous general equilibrium (CGE) modelling of the economy-wide effects of trade reform for all country cases application of an innovative method of microsimulations to assess the employment and factor income distribution impact of policy reforms on poverty and inequality at the household level. This important study, a valuable resource for postgraduate students of development economics and political economy, examines all the current issues and brings together some of the world’s leading experts.

Author : Ashok Parikh
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,45 MB
Release : 2007-06-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9813106891

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This is one of few books on the quantitative assessment of trade liberalisation and its impact on micro and macro economics structure in developing countries. Addressing the prospects of economic growth at a macro level, gives a thorough analysis of various issues such as profitability of enterprises after liberalisation, structural change, imports and exports by sectors and regions, and the trade balances of developing countries. The aspects of terms of trade and the trade balances in African, Latin American and Asian economies are studied using econometric techniques.

Author : Heng-Fu Zou
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,15 MB
Release : 1999
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January 1995 A developing country's economic growth rate increases as foreign technology imports increase. In developing countries, increases in productivity depend not on innovation but on importing foreign plants and equipment and on borrowing foreign technology. Zhang and Zou investigate the relationship between foreign technology imports and economic growth in developing countries. They develop an intertemporal endogenous growth model that explicitly accepts foreign technology imports as a factor of production. The model establishes a link between the growth rate of productivity in a developing country and the country's intensity of learning to use foreign technologies. They hypothesize that a developing country's economic growth rate increases as foreign technology imports increase. They run regressions with data for about 50 developing countries, using different econometric methods and time spans. These empirical tests confirm the hypothesis that foreign technology transfers boost income growth rates. Moreover, economic developing in developing countries differs from that in industrial countries. In developing countries, increases in productivity depend not on innovation but on importing foreign plants and equipment and on borrowing foreign technology. This paper -- a product of the Public Economics Division, Policy Research Department -- is part of a larger effort in the department to understand economic growth and foreign trade. Heng-fu Zou may be contacted at [email protected].

Author : Thorvaldur Gylfason
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,25 MB
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1451854137

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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.

Author : James Daniel Theberge
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 12,12 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780471858447

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Monographic compilation of readings in the economic theory of trade in relation to economic development - covers the effects of industrialization on exports, comparative advantage and development policy, Terms of Trade and economic development, tariff negotiation, technology transfer, capital formation, foreign investment in developing countries, policy obstacles to trade and development, etc. References and statistical tables.