Home-led or Export-led growth?

Export or Domestic-led Growth in Asia?

Development Bank, and Joseph Anthony Lim is Professor in the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. This paper was prepared for the Asian Development Outlook 2005. The authors acknowledge very efficient research assistance from Suteera Sitong of the Fiscal Policy Office, Ministry of Finance, Thailand. Useful comments were received from Ifzal Ali and participants of the Asian Development Bank...

Export -led Growth in India:

The present study attempts to test the mechanisms of Export Led Growth in India by taking a timeseries data from 1980-81 to 2008-09. It applies Ordinary Least square (OLS) method to investigate the relationship between Gross National Product, Total Exports, Manufactured Exports and Investment. The results of the study supports the Export Led growth Hypothesis (ELGH) in India.

Is the Economic Growth Regime in Iran Wage-led or Profit-led? 

This study investigates the relationship between factor income distribution and aggregate demand in the context of the Post-Keynesian school, using data from Iran over the period 1346-1393. To this end, profit share and GDP growth are used as proxies for factor income distribution and demand growth, respectively. The results of the cointegration analysis based on the ARDL approach show that pro...

The Republic of Korea & Export Led Growth Strategy

Export-led growth in Bangladesh: a time series analysis

In over three decades, Bangladesh has witnessed substantial growth in its export of goods and services. Over this period economic growth has accelerated withGDP initially recording an average growth rate of below 3% in the early 1970s and rising to 5% during the 1990s. The trade and industry policies have changed from being highly import substituting and government controlled to become more lib...