Shifting Patterns of Comparative Advantage: Manfactured Exports of Developing Countries
Shifting Patterns of Comparative Advantage: Manfactured Exports of Developing Countries

Author: Alexander J. Yeats

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 60

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Labor -intensive goods are the developing countries' strongest export items -- and the United States is the chief import market for these goods. What's more, the industrial countries can expect increasing competition in the 1990s in clothing, footwear, leather products, wood manufactures, and some primary metal manufactures.

Export-oriented Industrialization in Developing Countries
Export-oriented Industrialization in Developing Countries

Author: Pitou van Dijck

Publisher: NUS Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 9789971691127

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This study describes and analyses in depth the transformation taking place in world manufacturing industry and its impact on the economies of newly industrialising countries. In Part One, the causes and characteristics of export-oriented industrialisation are studied, often using world-wide cross-country analyses. Trade policies and export strategies underlying such industrialisation processes get much attention. Part Two mainly deals with the domestic preconditions for and consequences of export-oriented manufacturing production, on the basis of detailed case studies of seven East and South-East Asian countries.

Exports of Manufactures from Developing Countries
Exports of Manufactures from Developing Countries

Author: William R. Cline

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 262

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Statistical analysis of the export of industrial products from developing countries in the 1970s, and the prospects for market access in the 1980s - reviews trends in industrial production and export patterns, trade and protectionism; develops an econometric model identifying determinants of protection in developed countries; contains projections for growth rate of manufactured exports and protection; examines the implications of protectionist measures. Graphs, references.

China's Growing Role in World Trade
China's Growing Role in World Trade

Author: Robert C. Feenstra

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2010-03-10

Total Pages: 603

ISBN-13: 0226239721

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In less than three decades, China has grown from playing a negligible role in international trade to being one of the world's largest exporters, a substantial importer of raw materials, intermediate outputs, and other goods, and both a recipient and source of foreign investment. Not surprisingly, China's economic dynamism has generated considerable attention and concern in the United States and beyond. While some analysts have warned of the potential pitfalls of China's rise—the loss of jobs, for example—others have highlighted the benefits of new market and investment opportunities for US firms. Bringing together an expert group of contributors, China's Growing Role in World Trade undertakes an empirical investigation of the effects of China's new status. The essays collected here provide detailed analyses of the microstructure of trade, the macroeconomic implications, sector-level issues, and foreign direct investment. This volume's careful examination of micro data in light of established economic theories clarifies a number of misconceptions, disproves some conventional wisdom, and documents data patterns that enhance our understanding of China's trade and what it may mean to the rest of the world.