Front Matter
- Mohsin Khan, and Morris Goldstein
- Published Date:
- August 1982

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Contents
II. Industrial Country Income Growth and Non-Oil Developing Countries’ Exports
III. Non-Oil Developing Countries’ Export Growth and Real Income Growth
Tables in Text
4. Implied Income Elasticities for Total Imports: Industrial Countries, 1968–80
5. Commodity Composition of Trade of Oil Importing Developing Countries, 1963, 1973, and 1978
9. Changes in Industrial Country Imports, Total and by Commodity Group, 1968–80
10. Commodity Composition of Merchandise Exports: Selected Country Groups, 1960 and 1978
11. Import Coverage of the Generalized System of Tariff Preferences, 1976
14. Trade Among Developing Countries as a Share of Their Total Exports, 1963–77
18. Non-Oil Developing Countries: Growth of Volume of Exports and of Real GDP, 1965–80
21. Ratio of Workers’ Remittances to Exports (Merchandise) for 1967, 1973, and 1978–79
CHART
Chapter
III. 1. Non-Oil Developing Countries: Growth Rates of Real GDP and Export Volume, 1965–80
The following symbols have been used throughout this paper:
… to indicate that data are not available;
— to indicate that the figure is zero or less than half the final digit shown, or that the item does not exist;
– between years or months (e.g., 1979–81 or January-June) to indicate the years or months covered, including the beginning and ending years or months;
/ between years (e.g., 1980/81) to indicate a crop or fiscal (financial) year.
“Billion” means a thousand million.
Minor discrepancies between constituent figures and totals are due to rounding.
Prefatory Note
This study was prepared in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund. Its authors are Morris Goldstein and Mohsin S. Khan, Advisors in the Research Department. The authors are grateful to a number of colleagues in the Fund for helpful comments on an earlier draft of the study. A special measure of thanks is due to Andrew Feltenstein of the Fiscal Affairs Department for his very useful suggestions at an early stage on the overall design of the study. Views expressed in the study are the authors’ alone and do not necessarily represent the views of the Fund.