Trends in International Trade in Manufactured Goods and Structural Change in the Industrial Countries

Bela Balassa
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Chapter Essay 18 in Change and Challenge in the World Economy, 1985, pp 403-426 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This essay will examine recent trends in trade in manufactured goods between the industrial and the developing countries and indicate the implications of these trends for structural change in the industrial countries. The essay will cover the 1973–81 period, with consideration given to changes during the 1973–8 and 1978–81 subperiods, each of which began with an oil shock, followed by a world recession.1

Keywords: Industrial Country; Income Elasticity; Industrial Nation; Manufacture Export; Commodity Group (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17991-6_18

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