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Export Diversification in Low-Income Countries An International Challenge After Doha
- Title
- Export Diversification in Low-Income Countries [electronic resource]: An International Challenge After Doha / Federico Bonaglia and Kiichiro Fukasaku
- Author
- Bonaglia, Federico.
- Publication
- Paris : OECD Publishing, 2003.
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- Fukasaku, Kiichiro.
- Description
- 45 p.; 21 x 29.7cm.
- Summary
- This paper discusses major policy issues related to commodity dependence and export diversification in low-income countries. Contrary to some widely-held view, it argues that natural resources are not necessarily a "curse" — that they do not condemn low-income countries to underdevelopment but can provide rather a basis for sustained export-led growth. Natural resource-based sectors have potential for export diversification. The OECD "mirror" trade data suggest that many different routes to diversification exist, including resource-based manufacturing and processing of primary products. However, these opportunities are not being exploited in many low-income countries. This is because export diversification is typically a slow process, and this process needs to be sustained by an appropriate and coherent strategy, characterised by a combination of vision, co-ordination and management of conflicting interests. Moreover, the analysis of trade support services in two African countries ...
- Series Statement
- OECD Development Centre Working Papers, 1815-1949 ; no.209
- Uniform Title
- OECD Development Centre Working Papers, no.209.
- Subject
- Development
- LCCN
- 10.1787/043266813306
- OCLC
- oecd-lib-001228
- Author
- Bonaglia, Federico.
- Title
- Export Diversification in Low-Income Countries [electronic resource]: An International Challenge After Doha / Federico Bonaglia and Kiichiro Fukasaku
- Imprint
- Paris : OECD Publishing, 2003.
- Series
- OECD Development Centre Working Papers, 1815-1949 ; no.209OECD Development Centre Working Papers, 1815-1949 ; no.209.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Development
- Added Author
- Fukasaku, Kiichiro.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 10.1787/043266813306 doi