Export Quality and Income Distribution

By Rajat Acharyya

Given the increasing sensitivity of buyers in the richer countries towards quality of goods they consume, low-quality exports largely constrain export-growth of the developing countries. This Element documents the attempts to estimate cross-country quality variations and reviews the demand side and supply side explanations for the low-quality phenomenon. It examines how trade policies can incentivize export-quality upgrading, and discusses the underlying channels through which a reverse causality from export-quality upon within-country income or wage inequality may develop.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009124609
• ISBN13: 9781009124607
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"