This ADB Institute study uses standard export indicators to determine (i) how export performance evolved during the … their competitiveness before the Asian crisis struck. Contrary to the belief that Asia's emerging export machine was no … longer a dominant force, we find that very few of these economies lost their export competitiveness prior to 1996. This also …

which exporting could have made both a substantial and a persistent contribution to export-oriented economic growth in Korea …-level data for Korean manufacturing show that more export-intensive industries tend to have a higher productivity level. In … addition, a substantial part of the variance in plant-level productivity is explained by the variance in industry-level export …