UID:
edocfu_9958090051702883
Format:
1 online resource (35 p.)
ISBN:
1-4843-8181-5
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1-4843-7829-6
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1-4843-9087-3
Series Statement:
IMF working paper ; WP/13/108
Content:
This paper develops new, far more extensive estimates of export quality, covering 178 countries and hundreds of products over 1962–2010. Quality upgrading is particularly rapid during the early stages of development, with quality convergence largely completed as a country reaches upper middle-income status. There is significant cross-country heterogeneity in quality growth rates. Within any given product line, quality converges both conditionally and unconditionally to the world frontier; increases in institutional quality and human capital are associated with faster quality upgrading. In turn, faster growth in quality is associated with more rapid output growth. The evidence suggests that quality upgrading is best encouraged through a broadly conducive domestic environment, rather than sector-specific policies. Diversification is important to create new upgrading opportunities.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Contents; I. Introduction; II. Estimating Product Quality: Methodology and Data; III. Export Quality: Stylized Facts; A. Comparison of Quality Estimates with Unit Values; B. Export Quality over Time: Examples from Specific Sectors; C. Quality Ladders: Potential for Quality Upgrading; D. Export Quality Along the Development Path; E. Quality Upgrading by Income Group and Region; IV. Determinants of Quality Upgrading; V. Conclusion and Policy Implications; References; Table 1. Imports: Quality-Augmented Gravity Equations; Table 2. Quality Upgrading: Summary Statistics for Data
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Table 3. Quality Upgrading: Panel Regressions, for All ProductsTable 4. Quality Upgrading: Panel Regressions, for Manufacturing Alone; Figure 1. Quality and Unit Values; Figure 2. Changes in Quality and Changes in Unit Values; Figure 3. Quality and Unit Values for Passenger Motor Cars Exports (SITC 7321); Figure 4. Quality and Unit Values for Apparel Exports (SITC 84); Figure 5. Quality Ladders; Figure 6. Quality, Unit Values, and GDP per capita; Figure 7. Quality in Agriculture and Manufacturing; Figure 8. Quality, Unit Values, and GDP per capita: Within-Country Variation
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Figure 9. Export Quality by Income Group over TimeFigure 10. Quality Upgrading by Region; Figure 11. Country-level Heterogeneity in Quality Upgrading in Asia and Africa; Figure 12. Quality Upgrading and Destination Markets
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4843-5163-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-299-66146-7
Language:
English
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