Trade Policy Issues in Asian Development

by Athukorala; Prema-chandra

• ISBN13: 9780415169271
• ISBN10: 0415169275
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-12-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This study examines issues of trade and policy in the light of the experience of developing Asian economies including those of Sri Lanka, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.

Table of Contents

List of figures	xi	(1)
List of tables	xii	(3)
Preface	xv
Introduction	1	(2)
1 Trade policy and economic development: background and overview	3	(14)
State of the debate	3	(6)
Scope and outline of the book	9	(4)
Notes	13	(4)
PART 1 Trade policy and development	17	(94)
2 Trade policy reforms and industrial restructuring in Sri Lanka	19	(30)
Policy context	21	(10)
Industrial growth and adjustment	31	(14)
Conclusion	45	(2)
Notes	47	(2)
3 Export-oriented industrialisation, growth and equity in Malaysia	49	(20)
Policy context	50	(4)
Growth and structural change	54	(4)
Employment and equity	58	(7)
Conclusion	65	(2)
Notes	67	(2)
4 Structural adjustment reforms, saving and investment in India	69	(21)
Saving and investment behaviour in india: an overview	71	(3)
The intriguing behaviour of household physical investment	74	(5)
Determinants of private corporate investment	79	(4)
Results	83	(2)
Conclusion	85	(1)
Notes	86	(1)
Appendix	87	(3)
5. Linkages and gains from export growth: issues and evidence from Indonesia	90	(21)
Conceptual issues	92	(4)
Methodology and data	96	(3)
Results	99	(4)
Conclusion	103	(1)
Notes	104	(1)
Appendix	105	(6)
PART II Foreign investment and export-oriented industrialisation	111	(58)
6. Export-oriented foreign direct investment: a typology with evidence from Sri Lanka	113	(22)
Export-oriented foreign direct investment: a typology	114	(5)
Foreign investment climate	119	(4)
Trends and patterns of EOFDI	123	(10)
Conclusion	133	(1)
Notes	133	(2)
7. Multinationals and export performance: analytical issues and empirical evidence	135	(13)
Theory and hypotheses	137	(2)
Methodology and data	139	(4)
Results and conclusions	143	(3)
Notes	146	(2)
8 Multinationals, employment and real wages in Malaysian manufacturing	148	(21)
Multinationals and employment: an overview	150	(3)
Overall wage trends	153	(2)
MNEs and real wage growth	155	(8)
Conclusion	163	(1)
Notes	164	(1)
Appendix	165	(4)
PART III Export orientation and the world economy	169	(53)
9 Demand and supply factors in agricultural exports	171	(22)
Policy context	172	(5)
Export performance	177	(6)
Determinants of exports: an econometric analysis	183	(6)
Conclusion	189	(1)
Notes	190	(2)
Appendix	192	(1)
10 The demand for NIC exports: does the small country assumption hold?	193	(15)
Analytical framework	195	(1)
Data and econometric procedure	196	(5)
Results	201	(4)
Conclusion	205	(1)
Notes	206	(1)
Appendix	206	(2)
11 Terms of trade for manufactured exports from developing countries	208	(14)
Existing evidence	210	(1)
Data and method	211	(3)
Results	214	(5)
Conclusion	219	(1)
Notes	220	(1)
Appendix	221	(1)
References	222	(15)
Index	237