Export Catalysts in Low-Income Countries: A Review of Eleven Success Stories

摘要

The report describes the catalyst model of development that emerges from the analysis of the eleven export success stories (in non-East Asian developing countries). It aims at providing feasible and practical answers to questions about workable development strategies for low-income countries. Generally these are countries beset by extremely distortionary economic policies and characterized as lacking the critical factors needed to enter the world market. In any case, they tend to lack the local capacity to package such factors. To that end, the catalyst model of development is a model for initiating and transmitting outward-oriented development and for sequencing realistic policy reforms, starting from 'equal footing' export incentives, in parallel with increasing industrial competence gained through world market competition. (Copyright (c) 1990 The World Bank.)