Recent Trends in Exports of Manufactures by Newly-Industrialising Countries

There is now a large literature on the growth of manufactured exports by LDCs, especially on the performance of the NICs (the newly industrialising countries).2 This paper reviews this literature and presents some data on the recent experience. There is so much written in this area, however, that this survey cannot hope to be exhaustive. It concentrates on certain themes that are likely to be of direct interest to policy-makers and students concerned with this area, and mainly on works, published and unpublished, that have appeared in the past five years or so.