Pakistan used an export tax on raw cotton from 1988-1995 in order to suppress the internal price of cotton to benefit …'s economy. Results indicated that the export tax had a negative impact on the growth rate in the cotton sector, while having … little or no impact on the yarn sector. Thus, the export tax did not achieve its objective of increasing the growth rate of …

Colombia reduced import protection along with explicit export promotion schemes in the early 1990s. Capital flows were … 2000 mainly due to a collapse of private investment. Non-traditional export growth had been the engine of the economy in … growth did virtually nothing to reduce poverty. Simulations with a CGE for Colombia suggest that these trends are not due to …