This paper analyzes the linkage between services and manufacturing productivity performance, using firm-level data for over 100 developing countries. We find strong evidence for such a linkage, although the effect is small: at the average rate of services input intensity, a 10% improvement in...

In this paper we attempt to answer the question of why the growth rate of international trade among the industrial countries declined by more than half since the inception of floating exchange rates. In trying to answer this question we separate the effects of exchange rate volatility from other...

Changes in comparative advantage should reflect changes in factor endowment, but increasingly, changes in trade policies also affect a region's trade performance. Based on the arguments in Balassa's stages of comparative advantage thesis, this paper looks at the performance of manufacture...