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Product Standards, Exports and Employment

An Analytical Study

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  • © 2005

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Authors:
  1. Rajat Acharyya

    1. Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India

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Part of the book series: Contributions to Economics (CE)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-4

  3. Dimensions of Quality Problem in the Developing Countries

    Pages 5-19

  4. Theories of Quality Choice

    Pages 21-57

  5. Income Distribution, Trade Policy and Export Quality

    Pages 59-76

  6. Wage Policy, Standards and the Labour Market

    Pages 77-90

  7. Inter-Linkage Between Skill Formation and Export Quality

    Pages 91-103

  8. Dirty Exports and Environmental Standards

    Pages 105-134

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 135-149
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Through the process of globalization, the trade dependence and int- dependence of the developing countries have increased phenomenally than ever before. The characteristic of this late twentieth-century globalization process has been the new technological revolution that has led to a high rate of world exports of electronics and other high-technology products. This has marginalized most of the developing countries exporting largely the low quality and low value-addition manufacturing and primary products, barring a few exceptions like China, India and Mexico. The fruits of globalization have, therefore, been unevenly distributed so far across the developed and the developing countries. Moreover, whatever little growth in exports of medium technology products has been achieved by a few of them, is largely driven by outsourcing of low value-addition and low- stage of activities by the foreign multinationals. Outsourcing of software services, rather than development of software packages, in India and assembly line for automobiles in Mexico are the two glaring examples. These activities may have boosted the total exports of these countries, but they have failed to generate any feedback effect on the rest of the economy in terms of skill formation, increase in overall productivity level and product diversification.

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  • Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India

    Rajat Acharyya

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