纺织品贸易和经济增长方式外文原文.pdfVIP

Textile Trade and tlle Pattern of Economic Growth By Gregory Schmid and Owen Phillips Contents: I. Patterns of Trade. -- II. Efficient Production and Export Performance. -- III. Successful Exporters and Economic Development. -- IV. Conlusion. n the post-World War II era, the international economy experienced I a period of extremely rapid growth in world trade. This boom period reached its peak in the late i96os and early i97os. The growth in trade created some notable opportunities for increasing exports of manufac- tured goods from the developing countries. Certain developing countries have been able to take advantage of these opportunities, especially those involved in trade in textiles and apparel. This article examines the patterns of trade in textiles and apparel, factors of production that are associated with export competitiveness, and the impact of overall competitiveness on the development process. I. Patterns of Trade The relatively stable environment for international transactions estab- lished after World War II encouraged growth in trade. Between 1954 and 1959, world trade expanded by an average 5.2 percent per year in U.S. dol- lar value; between 196o and 1967, by 8.2 percent per year; between 1968 and 1974, by 22.6 percent per year. Growth rates in volume terms were more modest, though the increase was still significant: 5.2 percent, 7.3 per- cent, and 9.7 percent in the three periods [IMF, var. iss.]. The trade boom of the late I96OS and early I97OS was even