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The Role of Subsidies and Import Controls in Modernising Low-income Countries

In: Why Developing Countries Fail to Develop

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  • Purushottam Narayan Mathur

    (University College of Wales)

Abstract

Developing countries traditionally earn their foreign exchange through the export of primary commodities, which may be agricultural- or mineral-based. The foreign exchange earnings of the developing countries as a whole from this are, however, limited, due to the low price elasticity of world demand for the primary commodities. An individual country may try to increase its foreign exchange earnings by increasing its exports of these commodities, but as soon as other countries also try to do the same, the price of the commodity is likely to slide down so as to frustrate the efforts of all of them. So if the development process requires extra imports for investment, etc. it may have to be paid by the exports of non-traditional commodities, which can in most cases be only manufactured goods. The situation remains the same even if the development process is supported by international aid, as the loans available have to be repaid with interest, and that requires the availability of foreign exchange.

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  • Purushottam Narayan Mathur, 1991. "The Role of Subsidies and Import Controls in Modernising Low-income Countries," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Why Developing Countries Fail to Develop, chapter 15, pages 229-243, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-21343-6_16
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-21343-6_16
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