Economic Incentives and Agricultural Exports in Developing Countries

This paper examines the effects of economic incentives on exports in general, and on agricultural exports in particular, in the developing countries. Section 1 introduces a simple econometric model to estimate the effects of price incentives on exports. In Section 2, the model is applied to the exports of goods and non-factor services and to merchandise exports. In Section 3, the same model is used to indicate the effects of price incentives on agricultural exports. Finally, Sections 4, 5, and 6 present information on the responsiveness of merchandise and agricultural exports to incentives in the 1960–73, 1973–8, and 1978–81 periods respectively, by making use of intercountry comparisons. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.