Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Cooper, Charles
Author-Workplace-Name: United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies
Title: Technology, Manufactured Exports and Competitiveness
Abstract: The external situation facing developing countries has changed markedly in the
	 past decade in terms of increased international economic integration and
	 accelerated technological change. In this context, the paper explores the role of
	 technological factors in developing countries' efforts to become internationally
	 competitive in manufactured exports. The results of an empirical analysis suggest
	 that it is possible to discern different technological growth paths associated with
	 the development of manufactured exports from developing countries. The implications
	 of these different paths are discussed, and the distributional effects arising
	 through the growth or stagnation of real wages are examined, together with
	 aggregate employment effects, and especially the effects on women's employment.
Keywords: Technology, Exports, Manufactured Goods, Competitiveness, Economic Performance, Developing Countries 
Series: Discussion Paper
Creation-Date: 1995
Number: 1995-13
File-URL: https://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/discussion-papers/9513.pdf
File-Format:application/pdf
File-Size:  179 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unuint:199513