Effective exchange rates for exports in Pakistan

Summary

Effective exchange rates for exports in Pakistan can be calculated which take into account the major export incentive measures in operation and their divergent treatment of specific exports. This quantification of export policies into an overall measure of the implicit (effective) foreign exchange rate structure permits an evaluation of the impact of export promotion measures on foreign exchange earning capacity. The major export incentive schemes were found to provide the highes’ subsidies to those exports with the highest total import components and the lowest relative earnings of net foreign exchange. Thus de velopment policy in some cases failed adequately to encourage these producers with relatively higher levels of domestic value‐added to export their products.

Notes

* Assistant Professor of Economics at Colorado College, where this article was completed with assistance from the Chapman Fund for Research in Economics. It is based upon research conducted during 1967–68 at the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics as well as U.S. A.I.D./Lahore, Pakistan and supported by an N.D.E.A. Title IV Fellowship from Syracuse University and U.S. A.I.D./Pakistan. Responsibility for the content remains solely with the author.