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    Productivity and Trade Growth in Services: How Services Helped Power Factory Asia

    Shepherd, Ben | January 2019
    Abstract
    This paper uses a theory-based measure of productivity-based comparative advantage to examine the trade performance of developing Asian economies in manufacturing and services over the 1995–2011 period. We find that the growth in service exports was nearly as rapid as that in manufacturing over this period—a little-appreciated fact. Services are therefore an integral part of “Factory Asia.” Moreover, the results from a quantitative model of trade show that revealed productivity measures are often comparable between manufacturing and services at a disaggregated level, although the results differ markedly across sectors and economies. We also find evidence of rapid growth in revealed productivity in some service subsectors, comparable to that in manufacturing. Our findings suggest that oversimplifying the relationship between patterns of specialization and subsequent economic transformation and growth patterns misses important elements of reality.
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    Shepherd, Ben. 2019. Productivity and Trade Growth in Services: How Services Helped Power Factory Asia. © Asian Development Bank Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/9618.
    Keywords
    Development
    Trade
    Development Goals
    Skills Development
    Sustainable Development
    Trade Flows
    Trade And Development
    Food Security And Trade
    Trade Volume
    Trade Potential
    Trade Flows
    External Trade
    Industrial policy
    New technology
    Innovations
    Industry
    Export policy
    Import policy
    Trade Unions
    Natural Resources
    Services Trade
    SMEs
    Development assistance
    ADB
    Curriculum development
    Development assistance
    Development aid
    Development indicators
    Development potential
    Development models
    Project appraisal
    Performance appraisal
    Regional development bank
    Trade development
    Import volume
    Export volume
    Service industry
    Capital
    Business
    Communication in rural development
    Social participation
    Occupational training
    Partnership
    Joint venture
    System analysis
    Labor and globalization
    Labor policy
    Regional trading blocs
    Foreign trade and employment
    Developing countries
    Industrial priorities
    Technological innovation
    Technology transfer
    Foreign trade regulation
    Industrial relations
    Trade-unions
    Small business
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