000012930 001__ 12930 000012930 005__ 20210803100843.0 000012930 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.22004/ag.econ.12930 000012930 037__ $$a1730-2016-140224 000012930 041__ $$aeng 000012930 245__ $$aExport Performance in Fiji, 1960 to 1999 000012930 260__ $$c2003 000012930 269__ $$a2003 000012930 270__ $$mefleming@pobox.une.edu.au$$pFleming, Euan 000012930 300__ $$a33 000012930 336__ $$aWorking or Discussion Paper 000012930 490__ $$aWorking Paper 2003-5 000012930 520__ $$aStochastic dominance analysis was used to assess export performance in Fiji from 1960 to 1999. A country with reasonably abundant resources, Fiji has made effective use of its quite substantial resources to increase total export values significantly over the study period, with an average rate of growth of 2.6 per cent per annum. Non-agricultural exports were the source of this growth, increasing annually by 7.3 per cent. Growth was particularly strong from the late 1980s despite the loss of skills and capital flight in the wake of the May 1987 coup and military takeover. The economy clearly benefited from a policy switch from a trade protectionist policy with a high degree of government intervention to an export-oriented strategy based on private sector-led development. The values of total exports in the 1990s were dominant overall. The values in the 1980s dominated values in the 1960s and 1970s as a result of the expansion of non-agricultural exports. The 1970s stochastically dominated the 1960s clearly and the 1980s dominated the 1970s for non-agricultural exports. Non-agricultural export values continued to expand in the final decade of the study period, rendering overall stochastic dominance of the 1990s over the 1980s and preceding decades. The dominant decade for agricultural exports was the 1970s. However, the increase in agricultural export values during the 1970s was offset by a decline in agricultural export values in the final two decades of the study period such that there was no trend in agricultural export values over the whole study period. 000012930 546__ $$aEnglish 000012930 650__ $$aInternational Relations/Trade 000012930 6531_ $$aexport performance 000012930 6531_ $$aFiji 000012930 6531_ $$astochastic dominance 000012930 700__ $$aFleming, Euan M. 000012930 700__ $$aBlowes, Anita 000012930 8564_ $$9c1d73b88-d63a-4621-bbd0-bc358e2ff4b6$$s111046$$uhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/12930/files/wp030005.pdf 000012930 887__ $$ahttp://purl.umn.edu/12930 000012930 909CO $$ooai:ageconsearch.umn.edu:12930$$pGLOBAL_SET 000012930 912__ $$nMade available in DSpace on 2007-03-08T02:59:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 wp030005.pdf: 111046 bytes, checksum: bfc600955184f05aae9de57cf66f46fb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003 000012930 980__ $$a1730 000012930 982__ $$gUniversity of New England>School of Economics>Working Papers