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Export taxes and sectoral economic growth: evidence from cotton and yarn markets in Pakistan

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  • Darren Hudson
  • Don Ethridge

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Pakistan used an export tax on raw cotton from 1988‐1995 in order to suppress the internal price of cotton to benefit the domestic yarn industry. An analysis was conducted to estimate the impact of this policy on both the cotton and yarn sectors. These effects were simulated using the results ol a structural econometric model of these sectors of Pakistan's economy Results indicated that the export tax had a negative impact on the growth rale in the cotton sector, while having little or no impact on the yarn sector. Thus, the export lax did not achieve its objective of increasing the growth rate of value‐added (yarn) production above what would have occurred naturally.

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  • Darren Hudson & Don Ethridge, 1999. "Export taxes and sectoral economic growth: evidence from cotton and yarn markets in Pakistan," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 20(3), pages 263-276, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:agecon:v:20:y:1999:i:3:p:263-276
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.1999.tb00572.x
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