Cotton Textile and Leather Exports What Cost Foreign Exchange

Gary Hufbauer, Nayyara Aziz and Asghar Ali
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Nayyara Aziz: Development Department, Government of West Pakistan
Asghar Ali: Development Department, Government of West Pakistan

The Pakistan Development Review, 1969, vol. 9, issue 3, 330-342

Abstract: The senior author has elsewhere argued [8] that foreign exchange earned by the export of West Pakistan-manufactured goods has a high domestic cost. Much the same contention has been advanced by Hecox [7], Islam [9] and MacEwan [11]. In these papers the relationship between costs and earnings is usually based on fairly abstract assumptions. The purpose of this note is to reduce the calculations to a "plain man" level. Specifically, we try to calculate how many rupees of indigenous resources are expended to earn each extra rupee of foreign exchange which is received from exporting cotton textiles and leather goods rather than their primary ingredients, namely raw cotton and hides and skinsl.

Date: 1969
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