Mattoo, Aaditya; Subramanian, Arvind - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2009
This paper documents an unusual and possibly significant phenomenon: the export of skills embodied in goods, services … sophistication of a country’s exports with the average income level of destination countries, we show that the performance of a … number of developing countries, notably China, Mexico, and South Africa, matches that of much more advanced countries, such …