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Trade Strategies for Development: Export Promotion versus Import Substitution Export promotion: looking outward and
seeing trade barriers– primary-commodity export expansion– expanding manufactured good exports
Import substitution: looking inward but still paying outward– tariffs, infant industries, and protection
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Drawbacks of ISI Protection Inefficiency Protection Foreign Ownership Profits Remitted Copy MDC Technologies High Capital Intensities
Little benefit to abundant labor / Limited learning Import capital goods weak backward linkages Forward linkages penalized: Brazilian computers for
Brazilians. Protection Overvaluation
• Traditional exports hurt – urban vs. rural bias• Capital intensity further encouraged
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Overvaluation
How?– Run down reserves / borrow more reserves– Reduce imports via tariffs and NTBs– Ration available foreign exchange
• Dual exchange rates / preferred customers/ rent seekers
Why not?– Hurt exporters: reduced sales / reduced value of
proceeds– Nation lives beyond means … temporarily– Eventual sharp devaluation:
• Import Prices CoL Wage–Price Spiral Worsened B of P Currency Crisis
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Why Tariffs? Government revenue Discourage imports/Improve b of p Foster economies of scale Reduce dependency on MDCs Attract FDI – they get in under tariff barrier
EFFECTIVE RATE OF PROTECTION• Net nominal tariff relative to value added
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Trade pessimists– Slow growth of demand for primary products
Low Income Elasticity/Increased Efficiency/Synthetics
– Terms of trade deterioration over time– MDC import barriers
Trade optimists– Competition efficiency– Economies of scale for efficient sectors– Attract foreign capital– Generate foreign exchange
Propels Growth – When World Demand is Strong
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South-South Trade and Economic Integration
Growth of trade among developing countries Economic integration: theory and practice
– Industrial complexes Economies of scale Regional trading blocks and the globalization of
trade– NAFTA: Mexican boom, ~ 1996 - 2000– Mercosur:
• Brazil / Argentina / Paraguay / Uruguay • Real depreciation Argentine Tariffs
– Andean Group• Colombia/Ecuador/Peru/Bolivia/Venezuela
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Trade Policies of Developed Countries: the Need for Reform Rich-nation tariff and nontariff trade
barriers and the 1995 Uruguay Round The problem of adjustment assistance Domestic economic policies
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The Poor Face High Tariffs
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Concepts for Review Adjustment
assistance Autarchy Common market Customs union Depreciation Devaluation Dual exchange rate Economic integration
Economic Union Effective rate of
protection Exchange control Exchange rate Export promotion Flexible exchange rate Free-market exchange
rate
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Concepts for Review, cont’d
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Globalization Import substitution Infant industry International
commodity agreements
Inward-looking development policies
Multi-Fiber Arrangement (MFA)
New protectionism Nominal rate of
protection Nontariff trade barriers
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Concepts for Review, cont’d Official exchange rate Outward-looking
development policies Overvalued exchange
rate Parallel exchange rate Quotas Regional trading bloc
Rent seeking Synthetic substitutes Tariffs Trade creation Trade diversion Trade liberalization Trade optimists Trade pessimists
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Concepts for Review, cont’d
Uruguay Round Value added
Wage-price spiral World Trade
Organization (WTO)