Jarreau, Joachim; Poncet, Sandra - In: Journal of Development Economics 97 (2012) 2, pp. 281-292
We consider the effect of export sophistication on economic performance by appealing to regional variation within one … single country (China) over the 1997–2009 period. We find evidence in support of Hausmann, Hwang and Rodrik (2007), in that … regions specializing in more sophisticated goods subsequently grow faster. We find substantial variation in export …