Trade policies and productivity change in semi-industrialized countries

Nishimizu, Mieko; Robinson, Sherman

doi:10.1016/0304-3878(84)90106-8

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“…The export-led growth theorists in general claim that export enhances productivity growth (Bonelli, 1992;Haddad, de Melo & Horton, 1996;Weinhold & Rauch, 1999;Yean 1997;and Sjoeholm, 1999).These theorists claim that firms tend to learn advanced technologies through exports which they should implement to compete in the foreign marketplace (Balassa, 1978;Krueger, 1980;Nishimizu & Robinson, 1982). Firms also learn by doing and replicate through the trial and error processes innate in the production and sale of export goods (Grossman & Helpman, 1991).Moreover, expansion in production resulting from exports reduces unit production prices and thus increase productivity (Helpman & Krugman, 1985).These arguments must have worked to make the effect of export trade positive and significant on the total factor productivity in the economy of Nepal.…”

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Does higher education affect total factor productivity in Nepal? An exploration through the lens of ARDL bounds test

Dahal

2015

Econ J Dev Issues

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Does higher education affect total factor productivity in Nepal? An exploration through the lens of ARDL bounds test

Dahal

2015

Econ J Dev Issues

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“…To this effect, the OECD will analyze the binding constraints to agriculture trade expansion as part of its Programme of Work andBudget 2011-2012 6. See, among others, Michaely (1977), Balassa (1978Balassa ( , 1982, Nishimizu and Robinson (1984), Page (1990), andTybout (1992).…”

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Estimating the Constraints to Trade of Developing Countries

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Kang

2011

OECD Trade Policy Papers

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The severity of binding constraints to trade expansion in developing countries and the importance of the complementary policies that will maximize the impact of trade reforms on trade and economic growth are identified and quantified in this report. As trade-related needs of developing countries are numerous, such quantification is needed to identify the most binding constraints to guide the sequencing of reforms and aid-for-trade interventions. The constraints to trade expansion are largely country specific. However, countries which share important characteristics may face similar binding constraints. An econometric analysis is undertaken for as many partner countries as possible to produce an \unrestricted sample. that can be used as a benchmark against which special country groupings can be assessed. The econometric work relies on experimentation to identify and rank (based on their relative severity) the most binding constraints for each country grouping. Two case studies, on Azerbaijan and Uganda, illustrate the mechanisms of the econometric work and the importance of several variables not captured because of data limitationsresource rich countries, trade expansion, aid for trade, binding constraints, developing countries trade, taxonomy of constraints, landlocked countries, small and vulnerable economies

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“…Greenaway, Morgan and Wright (2002) evaluated the impact of trade liberalisation on 70 developing countries and found a significant positive relationship between trade liberalisation and economic growth. Nishimizu and Robinson (1984) study on trade policies and productivity change in semi-industrialised countries explored the impact of trade regimes on total factor productivity (TFP) growth within a quantitative framework in a study of four countries, namely Korea, Turkey, former Yugoslavia and Japan as the comparator. The analysis of the inter-industry differences in TFP growth rates at the two-digital level, found that substantial portions of variation in TFP growth rates can be explained by the output growth allocated to export expansion and import substitution in Korea, Turkey and former Yugoslavia, but interestingly not in Japan.…”

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