@article{Fleming:12930,
      recid = {12930},
      author = {Fleming,   Euan M. and Blowes,   Anita},
      title = {Export Performance in Fiji, 1960 to 1999},
      address = {2003},
      number = {1730-2016-140224},
      series = {Working Paper 2003-5},
      pages = {33},
      year = {2003},
      abstract = {Stochastic dominance analysis was used to assess export  performance in Fiji from 1960 to 1999. A country with  reasonably abundant resources, Fiji has made effective use  of its quite substantial resources to increase total export  values significantly over the study period, with an average  rate of growth of 2.6 per cent per annum. Non-agricultural  exports were the source of this growth, increasing annually  by 7.3 per cent. Growth was particularly strong from the  late 1980s despite the loss of skills and capital flight in  the wake of the May 1987 coup and military takeover. The  economy clearly benefited from a policy switch from a trade  protectionist policy with a high degree of government  intervention to an export-oriented strategy based on  private sector-led development.  The values of total  exports in the 1990s were dominant overall. The values in  the 1980s dominated values in the 1960s and 1970s as a  result of the expansion of non-agricultural exports. The  1970s stochastically dominated the 1960s clearly and the  1980s dominated the 1970s for non-agricultural exports.   Non-agricultural export values continued to expand in the  final decade of the study period, rendering overall  stochastic dominance of the 1990s over the 1980s and  preceding decades.  The dominant decade for agricultural  exports was the 1970s. However, the increase in  agricultural export values during the 1970s was offset by a  decline in agricultural export values in the final two  decades of the study period such that there was no trend in  agricultural export values over the whole study period.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/12930},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.12930},
}