 Developing Countries as Exporters of Services: What Trade Statistics SuggestJournal of Economic Integration, 2002, vol. 17, 297-310 Abstract: The paper departs from the perception that trade in services in general and developing countries' exports in services in particular are dynamic segments of world trade. Both total trade data as well as US import trade figures do not support this perception. Success episodes such as the recent increase in Indian computer and data processing services are found to be outliers. Instead, developing countries continue to rely on relatively slowly growing exports of relatively labourtabundant consumer services relating to movements of goods and persons. Thus, they have not yet benefited from innovations in the information technology sectors providing a growth momentum for producer services. Given the link between goods production and goods distribution, successful exporters of manufactures mostly overlap with successful exporters of services. The research argues that for the time being overproportionate growth of service exports from developing countries will remain limited to country episodes, but will not have the same wide country coverage as growth of manufactured exports. Keywords: international trade in private services; developing countries; trade policies (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ris:integr:0196 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Economic Integration is currently edited by Seongeun Kim More articles in Journal of Economic Integration from Center for Economic Integration, Sejong University Contact information at EDIRC. |
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