The Implications of Trade Barriers for Sectoral Diversification and Macroeconomic Stability in Developing Economies

February 1, 2006

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Gabriel Srour. The Implications of Trade Barriers for Sectoral Diversification and Macroeconomic Stability in Developing Economies, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2006) accessed September 24, 2024

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Summary

The paper examines the implications of lower trade barriers for sectoral diversification and macroeconomic stability in developing economies with a large primary goods sector. It shows that lower trade barriers can have ambiguous effects on macroeconomic stability. It shows also that diversification, in the form of equal distribution of resources between nonprimary sectors, may be counterproductive. In fact, investment in the nonprimary sector with lower trade barriers unambiguously enhances macroeconomic stability in a developing economy that is subject to substantial primary shocks.

Subject: Exports, Income, Real wages, Trade barriers, Wages

Keywords: WP

Publication Details

Pages:

26
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Working Paper No. 2006/050
Stock No:

WPIEA2006050
ISBN:

9781451863109
ISSN:

1018-5941

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