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Outgrowing resource dependence theory and some recent developments

Author:	Martin, Will;	Collection Title:	Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 3482
Country:	World;	Date Stored:	2005/02/07
Document Date:	2005/01/01	Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English	Region:	The World Region
Report Number:	WPS3482	SubTopics:	Environmental Economics & Policies; Achieving Shared Growth; Economic Theory & Research; Payment Systems & Infrastructure; Free Trade; Fiscal & Monetary Policy; Decentralization
Volume No:	1 of 1

Summary: Many policy makers are concerned about dependence on resource exports. This paper examines four changes that reduce this dependence: (i) accumulation of capital and skills; (ii) changes in protection policy, particularly reductions in the burden of protection on exporters; (iii) differential rates of technical change; and (iv) declines in transport costs. Developing countries as a group have made enormous progress in diversifying their exports away from resources in recent decades, a development that appears to have been aided by accumulation of capital and skills and by dramatic reductions in the cost of protection to exporters, but slowed down by technological advances that favored agriculture.


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