Export Quality and Income Distribution

ISBN-13: 9781009124607 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Rajat Acharyya; Shrimoyee Ganguly

Opis

Given the increasing sensitivity of buyers in the richer countries towards quality of goods they consume, low-quality exports largely constrain export-growth of the developing countries. This Element documents the attempts to estimate cross-country quality variations and reviews the demand and supply explanations for the low-quality phenomenon.

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Export Quality: Measurement Issues and the Cross-country Estimates; 3. Explaining The Low (Export) Quality Phenomenon: Theory and Empirics; 4. Trade Policies, Income Redistribution and Export Quality; 5. Quality Variations, Income Redistribution and Employment; 6. Domestic Demand, Market Imperfection and Urban Unemployment; 7. Concluding Remarks.