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Lecture: trade in developing countries

Trade in developing countries Infant industry argument (already introduced in previous lectures, here I will develop more) Temporary tariffs Potential comparative advantage not exploited because late start

11-3 Introduction Which countries are “developing countries”? The term “developing countries” does not have a precise definition, but it is a name given to many low- and middle- income countries.

11-4 Table 11-1: Gross Domestic Product Per Capita, 2009 (dollars)

11-5 Import-Substituting Industrialization Import-substituting industrialization was a trade policy adopted by many low- and middle-income countries before the 1980s. The policy aimed to encourage domestic industries by limiting competing imports.

11-6 Import-Substituting Industrialization (cont.) The principal justification of this policy was/is the infant industry argument: – Countries may have a potential comparative advantage in some industries, but these industries cannot initially compete with well- established industries in other countries. – To allow these industries to establish themselves, governments should temporarily support them until they have grown strong enough to compete internationally.

11-7 Problems with the Infant Industry Argument 1.It may be wasteful to support industries now that will have a comparative advantage in the future. 2.With protection, infant industries may never “grow up” or become competitive. 3.There is no justification for government interventions unless there is a market failure that prevents the private sector from investing in the infant industry.

11-8 Infant Industries and Market Failures Two arguments for how market failures prevent infant industries from becoming competitive: 1.Imperfect financial asset markets – Because of poorly working financial laws and markets (and more generally, a lack of property rights), firms cannot or do not save and borrow to invest sufficiently in their production processes. – If creating better functioning markets and enforcing laws is not feasible, then high tariffs would be a second-best policy to increase profits in new industries, leading to more rapid growth.

11-9 Infant Industries and Market Failures (cont.) 2.The problem of learning – At the beginning, a new sector is relatively less productive because it has to build up skills and competencies required to master the production of new goods. This is especially true for complex manufacturing production. – Since learning takes time, the protection is needed to allow new product lines in developing countries to reach a minimum technological development required to compete with products in developed countries.

11-10 Import-Substituting Industrialization (cont.) Import-substituting industrialization in Latin American countries worked to encourage manufacturing industries in the 1950s and 1960s. But economic development, not encouraging manufacturing, was the ultimate goal of the policy. Did import-substituting industrialization promote economic development? – Difficult to say but it seems that countries adopting these policies grew more slowly than others. But, in the past, Germany and the US extensively use import protection to develop the infant industry see Paul Bairoch ‘Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxes.’ University of Chicago Press, 1993

11-11 Import-Substituting Industrialization (cont.) It appeared that the infant industry argument was not as valid as some had initially believed. New industries did not become competitive despite or because of trade restrictions. Import-substitution industrialization involved costs and promoted wasteful use of resources: – It involved complex, time-consuming regulations. – It set high tariff rates for consumers, including firms that needed to buy imported inputs for their products. – It promoted inefficiently small industries. – Good development policies are always better (i.e. Korea)

11-12 Trade Liberalization Some low- and middle-income countries that had relatively free trade had higher average economic growth than those that followed import substitution. By the mid-1980s, many governments had lost faith in import substitution and began to liberalize trade. – Dramatic fall in tariff rates in India and Brazil, and less drastic reductions in many other developing countries.

11-13 Trade Liberalization (cont.) Trade liberalization in developing countries occurred along with a dramatic increase in the volume of trade. – The share of trade in GDP has tripled over 1970–1998, with most of the growth happening after – The share of manufactured goods in developing-country exports surged, coming to dominate the exports of the biggest developing economies. A number of developing countries have achieved extraordinary growth while becoming more, not less, open to trade. – ‘More open’ does not mean as open as developed countries: developing countries joining the WTO are allowed to keep higher tariffs for a while.

11-14 Fig. 11-1: Tariff Rates in Developing Countries Source: World Bank.

11-15 Fig. 11-2: The Growth of Developing-Country Trade

11-16 Trade Liberalization (cont.) Has trade liberalization promoted development? The evidence is mixed. – Growth rates in Brazil and other Latin American countries have been slower since trade liberalization than they were during import-substituting industrialization. But unstable macroeconomic policies and financial crises contributed to slower growth since the 1980s. – Other countries like India have grown rapidly since liberalizing trade in the 1980s, but it is unclear to what degree liberalized trade contributed to growth.

11-17 Trade and Growth: Takeoff in Asia Instead of import substitution, several countries in East Asia adopted trade policies that promoted exports in targeted industries (note that subsidies to the export sector are another type of protectionism) – Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and China have experienced rapid growth in various export sectors and rapid economic growth in general.

11-18 Trade and Growth: Takeoff in Asia (cont.) These high-performance Asian economies generated a high volume of exports and imports relative to total production. Their policy reforms were followed by a large increase in openness, as measured by their share of exports in GDP. However the increase in openness has been selective and used to allow the high tech sector to learn – examples of policies: tariff rebate: import high tech goods at low tariffs only if used in the production of exports; subsidized loans for the exporters; lower tax rates, etc. So for the Asian tigers it has been possible to develop through export-oriented growth thanks to a good mix of industrial policies and gradual openness to trade. However, Latin American nations such as Mexico and Brazil, which also sharply liberalized trade and shifted toward exports, did not see comparable economic takeoffs. These Latin American results suggest that other factors than simply openness must have played a crucial role in the Asian miracle.

11-19 Fig. 11-3: The Asian Takeoff Source: Total Economy Database.

11-20 Fig. 11-4: Asia’s Surging Trade

11-21 Trade and Growth: Takeoff in Asia (cont.) It’s unclear if the high volume of exports and imports caused rapid economic growth or was merely correlated with rapid economic growth. – High saving and investment rates could have led to both rapid economic growth in general and rapid economic growth in export sectors. – Rapid growth in education led to high literacy and numeracy rates important for a productive labor force. – Successful nations also have high quality government and institutions whereas Latin American ones have corrupted governments.

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