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Primary-Product Price Instability and Export Instability in LDCs

In: The International Monetary System and the Less Developed Countries

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  • Graham Bird

    (University of Surrey)

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It is often suggested that one of the main economic problems with which LDCs have to cope is instability in their export earnings. Export instability is felt to constitute a problem since it can affect a country’s domestic income, consumption, savings, investment, tax revenues, balance of payments, and, perhaps most significantly from the point of view of developing countries, capacity to import. Since imports are largely financed from export receipts, an export shortfall will have a direct impact on an LDCs ability to finance imports. Where imports are of a developmental nature, such as capital goods and fertilisers, and are not domestically substitutable, a shortfall in export earnings will tend to exert an adverse influence on development and growth. To the extent that export instability is unpredictable, at least to any precise degree, the uncertainties generated by it will impede efficient development planning.

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  • Graham Bird, 1982. "Primary-Product Price Instability and Export Instability in LDCs," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The International Monetary System and the Less Developed Countries, edition 0, chapter 3, pages 25-62, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-16903-0_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-16903-0_3
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