Export Specialization and Regional Growth: The Chilean and Colombian Cases

Miguel Márquez, M. Teresa Fernández () and Julian Ramajo
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M. Teresa Fernández: University of Extremadura

Chapter Chapter 23 in Regional Problems and Policies in Latin America, 2013, pp 523-551 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Unequal regional development is a feature of most Latin American countries [LAC] (see Cuadrado-Roura and González-Catalán 2013). As the spatial agglomeration of economic activity has become an important determinant of a country’s economic growth pattern (Puga and Venables 1999), much of the existing empirical research in Latin American has been focused primarily on the relationship between regional inequality and development (see, for example, Aroca and Hewings 2002). Nevertheless, although authors like Venables (2005) stress the theoretical root for the relationship between exports and spatial development, studies which examine regional exports as determinant of regional inequalities are less frequent. While different theoretical models make different predictions with respect to the impact of regional exports on regional growth differentials, the empirical evidence on the relationship between regional export diversity (that is, less specialization) and regional growth have only recently begun to be measured.

Keywords: Latin American Country; Herfindahl Index; Export Sector; Revealed Comparative Advantage; Positive Spatial Autocorrelation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-39674-8_23

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