The role of international trade and industrialization in economic growth in developing countries: The case of Malaysia.

This study found that: a strong, positive and highly significant relationship between exports growth and income growth is observed with high explanatory powers for the models; export growth in Malaysia makes a contribution to income growth over and above the contribution of primary factors of production (labor and capital); introducing export as a variable in the production function will increase the power of the model; the elasticity of income with respect to export was significantly higher than those of other developing countries previously investigated by other researchers.