Has China de-industrialised other developing countries?

China's opening to trade is interpreted as a shift in world average factor endowments, which altered the comparative advantage of other countries. In the rest of the world on average, this shift lowered the share of labour-intensive manufacturing in the sum of labour-intensive manufacturing and...

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Veröffentlicht in:Review of world economics 2011-06, Vol.147 (2), p.325-350
Hauptverfasser: Wood, Adrian, Mayer, Jörg
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:China's opening to trade is interpreted as a shift in world average factor endowments, which altered the comparative advantage of other countries. In the rest of the world on average, this shift lowered the share of labour-intensive manufacturing in the sum of labour-intensive manufacturing and primary output by 1-3.5 percentage points, and the corresponding export share by 1.5-5 points. The deindustrialising effect varied among countries, and was clearest in East Asia. It was significant, but not big enough to be a serious threat to growth or equity in most other developing countries.
ISSN:1610-2878
1610-2886
DOI:10.1007/s10290-011-0088-8