Outward-Orientation and Development: Are Revisionist Right?

T. Srinivasan and J. Bhagwati

Working Papers from Yale - Economic Growth Center

Abstract: The costs of import substitution (IS) as a strategy for industrialization, which was deemed synonymous with economic development by many development economists of the fifties and sixties, were shown to be substantial in the influential and nuanced studies of the seventies and eighties under the auspices of OECD, NBER and World Bank. These studies played a critical role in shifting policies in several developing countries away from the IS strategy. The paper systematically reviews the theoretical and empirical studies on such linkage. It rejects the cross-country regression methodology for reasons of their weak theoretical foundation, poor quality of their data base and their inappropriate econometric methodologies. It argues that the most compelling evidence on this issue can come only from careful case studies of policy regimes of individual entries such as those of OECD, NBER and World Bank.

Keywords: DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC GROWTH; INTERNATIONAL TRADE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E13 F11 F14 F43 O41 O57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 1999
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