Services Development and Comparative Advantage in Manufacturing

Read this working paper in the Policy Research Working Papers series put out by the World Bank. The authors argue that services have to compete for resources alongside manufacturing, with implications for export industries.

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Figure 2: RCA against Bank Private Credit to GDP (Df1), 2005


Notes: The vertical axis represents the RCA based on DVA in gross exports for Basic & Fabricated Metals sector and Food, Beverages & Tobacco sector, respectively. The horizontal axis represents a measure of financial development – the ratio of bank private credit to GDP.