Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/53726 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
ADBI Working Paper No. 329
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo
Abstract: 
Many developing countries have attempted to pursue the East Asian growth model in recent decades. This model is widely perceived to have been based on export-led growth. Given that developed countries are likely to grow at a slower rate and be less willing to run trade deficits in the post-financial-crisis world, can this growth model be sustained? Using panel data for Asian countries, this paper contributes to addressing this question by distinguishing between different kinds of export- and tradable-led growth in order to more precisely identify the nature of growth in the pre-crisis decades. We find in particular that, among our variables of interest, the proportion of a country's manufactured exports that is destined for industrialized countries is the one most robustly associated with output growth. The results have implications for continued post-crisis growth in Asian developing countries.
JEL: 
F43
O11
O53
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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